Dear Bruce, thanks for the fast response. Ihave checked, the perl/Tk version which I use is 804.028 and there is no problem in the athenarc with fonts or colours. I any case I copied it to the end of the mail. The funny thing is, that Artemis works well, so there should not be anything wrong with the perl or Tk. I am not sure for 100% of course. Anyway, thanks! Regards! Csaba # These variables determine the color palette used by Athena. All of the # default values are named colors from X11's rgb.txt file. You can use X11 # named colors, any other named colors that your system recognizes, or # hexadecimal triplets (i.e. "#0000FF" for blue and so on). [colors] marked=darkviolet foreground=black background=cornsilk3 inactivebackground=antiquewhite3 activebackground=cornsilk2 darkbackground=cornsilk3 background2=bisque3 activebackground2=bisque2 disabledforeground=grey50 highlightcolor=blue2 activehighlightcolor=blue3 requiresupdate=steelblue4 button=red4 activebutton=brown3 mbutton=darkviolet activembutton=mediumpurple current=indianred1 frozencurrent=palegreen2 hlist=white single=red4 # These are the fonts used by Athena. There is currently no way of # modifying these within the preferences dialog. You will have to edit the # athenarc file directly. [fonts] smbold=Helvetica 10 bold tiny=Helvetica 8 normal med=Helvetica 12 normal medit=Helvetica 12 italic bold=Helvetica 12 bold boldit=Helvetica 12 bold italic large=Helvetica 14 normal fixed=Courier 12 entry=Courier 10 entrybold=Courier 10 bold small=Helvetica 10 normal -- Cserháti Csaba