Hello, I tried to set the font for the shell-output-face with (set-face-property 'shell-output-face 'font "-sony-fixed-medium-r-normal--24-170-100-100-c-120-iso8859-1") but that doesn't change anything in the *shell* buffer. I checked that the part of But doing the same thing for shell-prompt-face like this (set-face-property 'shell-prompt-face 'font "-sony-fixed-medium-r-normal--24-170-100-100-c-120-iso8859-1") works fine. I checked that the face `shell-output-face' is really used in my current *shell* buffer by calling (save-excursion (set-buffer "*shell*") (mapcar 'extent-face (extent-list))) which gives the return value: (shell-prompt-face nil shell-output-face nil shell-output-face nil shell-output-face nil shell-output-face nil shell-output-face nil shell-output-face nil shell-output-face nil shell-prompt-face nil) Is this a bug? Mike -- Mike Fabian mike.fabian(a)mail.rhein-ruhr.de mike.fabian(a)gmx.de Termuehlenweg 2, D-40885 Ratingen-Lintorf, Telephone: +49(0)2102/893130