You might wanna check this link out, it just sorted me out after experiencing same problem following upgrade to sxde 1/08.
http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/desktop-discuss/2007-January/008847.html It advised two things: 1. clean out any .fonts.cache* files # rm $HOME/.fonts.cache* 2. Restart fc-cache : # svcadm restart svc:/application/font/fc-cache:default Good luck. This message posted from opensolaris.org
