Thanks, Andy, this fixes things for me. The only two issues left (apart from that widget-don't-fill-frame stuff) as far as I can see: The buffers-tab face problem Karl has reported. In b28, I was also able to set at least foreground and background color. This doesn't work anymore under b29. It looks like that sometimes tabs are still visible whose corresponding buffers already have been killed. E.g.: xemacs -vanilla (Splash buffer appears and *scratch* tab is shown) C-x C-f .emacs RET (First *scratch* buffer is displayed and then the desired file. *scratch* and .emacs tabs are visible.) M-x kill-this-buffer RET (.emacs buffer disappears, *scratch* is displayed, BUT: still *scratch* AND .emacs tabs are visible. Selecting the .emacs tab shows an empty buffer.) M-x list-buffers RET (.emacs buffer is still in the buffer list. I can mark it to be deleted and press 'x' and now the empty .emacs buffer is gone.) Markus