Around 23 o'clock on May 26, Tony Houghton wrote: > fc-cache: "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1": caching, 29 fonts, 0 dirs > fc-cache: "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi": caching, 0 fonts, 0 dirs It appears that you have an older version of FreeType2 installed somewhere that is getting picked up by your applications. Old FreeType2 bits would fail to load .pcf.gz fonts correctly. > What's the difference between "skipping" and "caching" BTW? Directories are 'skipped' when they are already up to date, are not writable or non-existant. Use '-f' to force fontconfig to update directories which are up to date. -keith