I have tried EVERYTHING (well, I guess not "everything" since it is still broken). When I try to launch the Themes app on the preference menu, I get this: The default theme schemas could not be found on. This means that you probably don't have metacity installed, or that your gconf is not configured correctly. This happens as root or any other user. All my desktop and nautilus icons are the "blank pieces of paper" icons and I am stuck with the default theme. I have removed all my .gconf* folders from my home dir, removed and re-installed both GConf and metacity. I also added user logging to syslogd to see if I got any errors from GConf - but it loads up clean. Any ideas?!?!?! Thanks in advance! Jed -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list