When i run select-input-method (C-x C-m C-\) loaded from "/usr/local/lib/xemacs/mule-packages/lisp/mule-base/mule-cmds.elc i get : Quail package "german-alt-postfix" can't be activated because library "quail/latin-alt" is not in `load-path'. True, path the package puts it is leim/latin-alt. setting up a simple link (ln -s leim quail) fixed this quick and dirty, maybe i could also rename the diretory name. The cleaner approache seems to be to fix lisp/leim/leim-list.el. (register-input-method "german-prefix" "Latin-1" 'quail-use-package "DE>" "German (Deutsch) input method with prefix modifiers" "quail/latin-pre") ^^^^^ gruss tom roth