Hi > > - Make sure that your font caches is up to date (run fc-cache -f > as root). I've seen people have this screwed up somehow before, > though it theoretically should fall back to a homedir cache > if the global caches aren't up-to-date. I did this > > - Try using gtk-update-icon-cache You mean run it as root or user?. did both anyway take about 6 seonds on cold and 3 secs on rerun. PIII with 128 MB ram. even the file dialog boxes take about 3-4 secs to show up -- Regards, Rahul Sundaram