Looks like that's it. Just rebuilt b11 and b12 and guess what? Nice icon in b11, greyed out in b12. And now the question that had to follow: Is there a possibility to fix this even for a "brain-dead" graphic card? Maybe Kazz, who submitted this patch, could shed a little light on it? According to the message to xemacs-patches, he tested on Sun (24 & 8 bit), FreeBSD and Linux. I'd gladly do testing on AIX if this is of any value, but unfortunately I'm not familiar enough with the source code to find out where something could be changed. So help, please. Markus Jan Vroonhof <vroonhof(a)math.ethz.ch&gt; on 02/04/2000 03:18:15 PM Please respond to Jan Vroonhof <vroonhof(a)math.ethz.ch&gt; To: Markus Alt/Germany/IBM＠IBMDE cc: Valdis.Kletnieks(a)vt.edu, xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org Subject: Re: XEmacs' desktop icon greyed out - revisited Taking a few seconds off from my feynman graphs.. ALTMARK(a)de.ibm.com writes: If you think this problem got introduced after 21.2.11 I would suspect 1999-02-16 Kazuyuki IENAGA <ienaga(a)jsys.co.jp&gt; * device-x.c: Support to find best visual without flashing. Which went in in between 21.2.11 and 21.2.12 http://www.xemacs.org/list-archives/xemacs-patches/199902/msg00036.html Jan