That's becasue, I believe, a standard restart of xfs closes all its open sockets (which are feeding fonts to th X server) and reopens new ones. What you should do is just send xfs a SIGUSR1 as root (sudo pkill -USR1 xfs). This will just make xfs re-read its config file. Check out the man page. HTH, pete On Fri, 06 Dec 2002, Gerry Tool wrote: > Thanks for the reply. It worked. By the time I tried it, I also saw Jesse > Keating's comment about restarting xfs. I did that rather than reboot, and > then the KDE menu had no entries. I did a Ctrl-Alt-Backspace to restart X, > and the menu reappeared and Gimp had the new fonts. -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list