I have more information related to my problem. I hope that this will make my problem more obvious...
When I run gnome-terminal from a standard terminal I get: BEGIN OUTPUT ------------ ** (gnome-terminal:161): WARNING **: Cannot load font for XLFD '-bitstream-courier-medium-r-normal--14-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1 (gnome-terminal:161): ZVT-WARNING **: Cannot get required fonts from "monospace13" (gnome-terminal:161): ZVT-WARNING **: Use "-*-*-*-*-*-*-13-*-*-*-*-*-*-*" XLFD fontname - some characters may not appear correctly (gnome-terminal:161): ZVT-WARNING **: Use "-*-*-*-*-*-*-0-*-*-*-*-*-*-*" XLFD fontname - some characters may not appear correctly (gnome-terminal:161): ZVT-CRITICAL **: file zvti18n.c: line 831: assertion `new_fontset != NULL' failed (gnome-terminal:161): ZVT-WARNING **: Failed to load any required font, so crash will occur..check X11 font pathes and etc/pangox.alias file ** (gnome-terminal:161): WARNING **: Cannot load font for XLFD '-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--10-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1 ** (gnome-terminal:161): WARNING **: Cannot load font for XLFD '-bitstream-courier-medium-r-normal--10-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1 (gnome-terminal:161): ZVT-WARNING **: Cannot get required fonts from "monospace10" (gnome-terminal:161): ZVT-WARNING **: Use "-*-*-*-*-*-*-10-*-*-*-*-*-*-*" XLFD fontname - some characters may not appear correctly (gnome-terminal:161): ZVT-WARNING **: Use "-*-*-*-*-*-*-0-*-*-*-*-*-*-*" XLFD fontname - some characters may not appear correctly (gnome-terminal:161): ZVT-CRITICAL **: file zvti18n.c: line 831: assertion `new_fontset != NULL' failed (gnome-terminal:161): ZVT-WARNING **: Failed to load any required font, so crash will occur..check X11 font pathes and etc/pangox.alias file ** (gnome_segv:162): WARNING **: Cannot load font for XLFD '-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--10-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1 ---------- END OUTPUT I guess that the problem comes from "the missing fonts", it says: Failed to load any required font, so crash will occur..check X11 font pathes and etc/pangox.alias file. Is there any way I can fix that? By the way, I use the -fp option for Xwin (Font server). Regards, Jonathan Primeau