I did investigate a little more ... by adding in xorg.conf AND /usr/lib/X11/fs/config
BOTH the path inside /usr/lib/X11/fonts AND /usr/share/fonts/X11 xemacs is not crashing anymore and seems to work, but emacs is still showing boxes instead of fonts and both editors still output warnings ... [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/article$ emacs Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-courier-medium-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-*" to type FontStruct Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-helvetica-medium-r-*--*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1" to type FontStruct [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/article$ xemacs Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-helvetica-bold-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-*" to type FontStruct Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion Christophe Raffalli -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]