I am using abisuite-0.7.8-5mdk and XFree86-xfs-4.0-6mdk, and abiword refused to start due to not being able to find its fonts. I checked the script and it has 'xset fp+ $ABISUITE_FONT_HOME 1>/dev/null 2>/dev/null' which seems ok. Can a normal user not change thier fontpath? I added /usr/share/abisuite/AbiSuite/fonts to /etc/X11/fs/config and restarted xfs, and did xset fp rehash, and it worked then. But this seems like a temporary fix.