Sam Steingold <sds(a)goems.com&gt; writes: Maybe you have 'visible-bell to t. There's more than .emacs. There's also the custom file, the options file if it gets loaded etc. I guess that you have some `timezone' related stuff in another file somewhere. No and no. After installation, the packages can be found under: ${prefix}/lib/xemacs/[xemacs|mule]-packages/lisp/<pack>/ etc/<pack>/ info/<pack>-*.info But note that what you get from CVS are the packages sources. I have a copy of the whole packages CVS archive (module xemacs-packages) which comes with facilities to compile them and install them in the good place. An easier way to use them is to grab the tarballs from ftp://ftp.xemacs.org/pub/xemacs/packages. They're already compiled in there, and all you have to do is untar in the appropriate directory (either xemacs or mule -packages). I think you still need to install the packages in ${prefix}/lib/xemacs. You can `configure' with the --prefix you want, however, and then run xemacs without installing it. But be aware that the packages sources trees are not supposed to be used at run time.