All these programs start but show tiny, one-pixel
fonts in the menues in both twm and icewm window
managers.

1. Bluefish
2. QCad
3. Sodipodi

This window manager gives an error window in the
same size one-pixel font.

1. gnome-session

Other programs such as Mozilla and GIMP work just
fine. This is on my laptop which otherwise works
as well as my tower PC. Any clues?

TIA,

Gan

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