Uwe Koloska wrote: > Where are you experts??? We are two at minimum discovering this behaviour > and if it's a misconfiguration it has to be described somewhere. It is a misconfiguration on your part. I'm running gimp 1.1.19 from debian and GDynText appears to be working fine. I typed text and it appeared in a new layer. http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/graphics/gimp1.1.html Christopher