Mats, On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 18:57, Mats Lidell <matsl(a)xemacs.org&gt; wrote: Thanks for trying it out! We've only tested with the latest beta release (21.5.31) so I can't rule out a bug here . However, one thing that I know can cause this problem is if it doesn't find the icon files. (Perhaps I should throw an error, or at least send a message if some files are missing.) Currently it searches `data-directory-path' and a customizable variable, `theme-icon-search-path' for icons. Each theme we wrote specifies relative paths from the top repository directory, so adding that path to theme-icon-search-path should enable it to find them. (For example, on this computer we would set it to '("/home/steve/icon-themes").) You may have already done this; if so, I'll see if I can figure out what else might cause the problem. :) Another thing you might try is the text-icons theme; those are plain text stored in the icon-theme-list.el, so any search path problems should be eliminated. Sincerely, Byrel Mitchell Steve Mitchell writing now: it sounds like to me that the icon-files are not being found. It sounds that way because when it cannot find an icon file, it leaves the last one in place (so if you have your own custom icons, they do not get overwritten). When we run it here, the icon file locations are /usr/local/share/xemacs/xemacs-packages/etc/icon-themes/ then 3 directories under that: open-icon-library oxygen Tango The lisp files, icon-themes.el and icon-themes-list.el are in: /usr/local/share/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/icon-themes/ That is working with 21.5.31, installed from source, not patched beyond that. In the README we tried to give some short directions where to put things to try it out, maybe they were not complete enough. or maybe wrong (grin). Let us know if that helps, Steve. Byrel _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://lists.xemacs.org/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta