Sorry for my delay, I was not received this letter :( The Xchat let us to define the own icons in userlist, which should be show instead of compiled in colored balls for user's status: http://www.xchat.org/faq/#q27 I have this icons and they do not work in Etch (Debian 5.0). But I found a workarround: If you create the symlink in home directory to '/usr' and call of this link as '${prefix}' - you can start xchat from this directory and the icons will showed. __ Sorry for my english, my native language is russian.