First, thank you for you help What I want to achieve is to make the lable's text distributed across the label. I have many label widgets,they are packed into a table 's first column The problem is that, the text's length of these label widget are not the same so they looks ugly I want to make the text distributed across the label using the following code,but not work /***********************************************? gtk_label_set_justify(GTK_LABEL(label),GTK_JUSTIFY_FILL); /**********************************************************************/ The FAQ use the following function void gtk_misc_set_alignment (GtkMisc *misc, gfloat xalign, gfloat yalign); this does work, but just align,not distributed the text ascross the label widget _______________________________________________ gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list