So, if I try to put GTK resource specs in faces.el like so: (set-face-background 'secondary-selection '(((x default color) . "paleturquoise") ((x default color) . "green") ((x default grayscale) . "gray53") ((gtk default color) . "paleturquoise") ((gtk default color) . "green") ((gtk default grayscale) . "gray53") ((mswindows default color) . "paleturquoise") ((mswindows default color) . "green") ((mswindows default grayscale) . "gray53")) 'global) XEmacs compiled for X or TTY fails to dump, citing the error below. It works fine if the code is built with GTK support, or if I comment out the (gtk default color) specs in the above list. Any clues? This would be one of those !＠#%!＠ we can't put GTK in type of bugs. -Bill P. Loading /usr/local/src/gtk-xemacs-21.2/i686-pc-linux/debug/tty/mule/nounion/lisp /faces.elc...*** Error in XEmacs initialization (error "Invalid color instantiator" global) *** Backtrace really-early-error-handler((error "Invalid color instantiator" global)) check-valid-instantiator(global color) # bind (result noerror specifier-type spec) canonicalize-spec(global color nil) # bind (rest result) byte-code("..." [specifier-type res2 noerror spec-list result rest nil throw c ann-spec-list t signal error "Invalid list format" canonicalize-spec] 5) # (catch cann-spec-list ...) # bind (result noerror specifier-type spec-list) canonicalize-spec-list((global ((x default color) . "paleturquoise") ((x defau lt color) . "green") ((x default grayscale) . "gray53") ((gtk default color) . " paleturquoise") ((gtk default color) . "green") ((gtk default grayscale) . "gray 53") ((mswindows default color) . "paleturquoise") ((mswindows default color) . "green") ((mswindows default grayscale) . "gray53")) color) # bind (is-valid nval how-to-add tag-set locale value specifier) set-specifier(#<color-specifier global=<unspecified> fallback=#<color-specifie r global=<unspecified> fallback=(...) 0x186> 0x79a> (((x default color) . "palet urquoise") ((x default color) . "green") ((x default grayscale) . "gray53") ((gt k default color) . "paleturquoise") ((gtk default color) . "green") ((gtk defaul t grayscale) . "gray53") ((mswindows default color) . "paleturquoise") ((mswindo ws default color) . "green") ((mswindows default grayscale) . "gray53")) global nil nil) # bind (how-to-add tag-set locale value property face) set-face-property(secondary-selection background (((x default color) . "paletu rquoise") ((x default color) . "green") ((x default grayscale) . "gray53") ((gtk default color) . "paleturquoise") ((gtk default color) . "green") ((gtk default grayscale) . "gray53") ((mswindows default color) . "paleturquoise") ((mswindow s default color) . "green") ((mswindows default grayscale) . "gray53")) global n il nil) # bind (how-to-add tag-set locale color face) set-face-background(secondary-selection (((x default color) . "paleturquoise") ((x default color) . "green") ((x default grayscale) . "gray53") ((gtk default color) . "paleturquoise") ((gtk default color) . "green") ((gtk default grayscal