I was experimenting with fonts on my recently built 21.0.63 version of XEmacs and hit something very odd. The default background color on my display was off-white (#fafaf8f8f3f3). That setting does produce the desired background color on my screen when XEmacs starts (something that was not the case at one time), but it switches to grey75 (or something close) as soon as I change the selected font using the Options->Font menu. This only changes the background of the text windows and the mini-buffer, but leaves the xpms in the tool bar and the status line with the off-white. While this is not a serious problem, it is annoying and I can't believe it is desired behavior. I recall a long discussion of some problems relating to the default background color. Has this been fixed in 21.2? (Guess I may have to break down and build 21.2, although I'm not sure where I'll find the disk space.) Thanks, R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman(a)es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634