I was just typing away in Kate when I did a spell check. My pet rat chose that moment to step on the keyboard, and I don't know what she pressed, but the spell checker closed and I get this error when I try to check (translated): Cannot run the spell checking program. Please check that the spell checking program is properly installed and is in your path. So I opened the options of Kate and in the spell checking dialog I tried all sorts of combination (Ispell/ Aspell/ Hspell/ International Ispell, different encodings, different dictionaries), but gives me a working spell checker. Any ideas? Dotan Cohen http://technology-sleuth.com/question/what_is_a_cellphone.html