At 02:35 PM 6/14/98 +0200, Oliver Graf wrote: xpm-color-symbols is read when an xpm image is instantiated and ignored thereafter. You need to change the face attributes before the images get instantiated. Are you saying that if you customize it and stop and start emacs then this doesn't work? Just customizing will not automatically change the colors on the fly - you need to change the icons or do something that causes the colors to be reread. However, I am worried that you gnus and normal toolbars look different. If you have not set modeline face or toolbar face then your toolbars should look the same as the modeline, which should look the same as the default face if none are set. In general you probably want to change gui-element face rather than modeline or toolbar. andy --------------------------------------------------------------------------- " .sigs are like your face - rarely seen by you and uglier than you think" Dr Andy Piper, Technical Architect, Parallax Solutions Ltd mail: andyp(a)parallax.co.uk web: www.parallax.co.uk/~andyp