FYI I have within these six weeks moved from fire fox 0.9.0 to 0.9.1 to 0.9.2. I give up, as suggested, IE. I see in compiling other programs the difficulty with Motif, lesstif, opengl and mesa. These are not equivalent. I have never understood gtk and gtkmm either. Oh well, others know better.... And BTW what is this new auto package thing ink scape has got? bart at solozone.com