On Wed, Jun 09, 2010 at 09:35:32AM +0200, Paul Chany wrote: > 2010-06-09 09:28:25.288 TimeMon[2033] NSApplication.m:286 Assertion > failed in initialize_gnustep_backend. Unable to find backend I forgot to say you need to install the package: gnustep-back0.16-cairo.