Help with Pidgin graphics

[Daniel Atallah]

2009/2/3 susanviolet <susanviolet at gmail.com>:
> I'm hoping someone can help me. I've searched the help pages on the website,
> and I can't seem to find any answers. I upgraded to the newest version of
> Pidgin, as well as changed some administration profiles around on Windows
> (XP). Now, when I run Pidgin, none of my graphics are visible - the toolbar
> on the right corner shows a white box with a red X, as does all my buddies,
> my status, my avatar. And in the toolbar in Pidgin, there are icons missing
> in the dropdowns as well.  I tried locating the folders on my C: drive, but
> I don't really know what I'm looking for, and when I uninstall and reinstall
> Pidgin the icons are still missing.

It sounds like your GTK+ runtime is messed up.

Try uninstalling the GTK+ runtime and reinstalling it.  A standalone
GTK+ runtime installer is available from the downloads section of
pidgin's sourceforge site (http://sf.net/projects/pidgin).

-D