Richard Coleman <coleman(a)math.gatech.edu&gt; writes in xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org: ... Yup. Do you have anything special going on with display-time in your .emacs, or can I expect to reproduce this with a bare-ass package-less XEmacs and the single line `(display-time)' in .emacs? I'll take a quick look at it when I get finished uploading 21.0.61. We have so many build-time options that relatively few combinations regularly get tested out. Things are somewhat better now since distribution-builds are now being done with bare-ass naked feature-free XEmacs binaries, but there has been much breakage.