I had a quite similar problem. Any characters in Gtk apps weren't anti-aliased, and some non-ASCII characters weren't visible.
If the problem only occurs in Gtk apps *on KDE*, and if it does not occurs in newly created user, try the following: 1. delete ~/.kde/share/config/kdeglobals???.new, if any, then restart KDE. 2. modify ~/.kde/share/config/kdeglobal: set XftAntialias=true in `General' section. ---- [General] XftAntialias=true ---- then restart. Yuya. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]