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> Of course I did NOT... and having done so, gschem starts up
> and works great.  :-)  Thanks for the tip.

The installer is supposed to set those for you, but I'm
not sure how they "stick" for command line use.

> Release version (1.7.1)
> 
> - I get about four error dialogs whenever it is started: errors
>   that the 'gafrc' file can't be found in various locations.

Already fixed.

> - Graphical quirks in the symbol browser tree view (no expanders)
>   and in file chooser dialog (file icons appear and disappear
>   randomly as mouse moves over them).  Fortunately these are fixed
>   in the snapshot build, and overall the new snapshot version has a
>   much tighter feel to the GTK UI.

Pixbuf stuff, fixed.

> - Many icons in the gschem toolbar are replaced with 'x' icons, as
>   if the associated icon image is not found.
>   
>   I see an error in the gschem log window that says “Could not find
>   image at file: C:\geda...\share\gEDA\bitmap\gschem-comp.xpm.”.
>   Now, I looked and these files do in fact exist in this location,
>   and I can open and view them with GVIM (I just discovered GVIM
>   has a really cool colored view of XPM files!).
> 
>   Note that I have the same problem with the pcb application in
>   this snapshot -- the pcb tool palette buttons are tiny (about
>   10x10 pixels, perhaps) and blank instead of having an icon.

Might be the same pixbuf stuff; there's a cache config file that the
installer generates that tells gtk where all the pixmap converters are.