I use XEmacs 21.4.3 on Windows 2000 and use a background pixmap as the default background: ;; Filename of background wallpaper (setq background-wallpaper "~/old-paper.jpg") ;; Set background pixmap (set-face-background-pixmap 'default background-wallpaper) Now if a line is too long to be displayed on the screen, this line is always displayed in white, which makes it almost unreadable in my environment. This behavior is independant if the line is really "wrapped" or not. The continuation line is displayed correctly. I found no special face for "wrapped" or "long" lines in "edit faces" so I tried to set the face of "Truncation and continuation glyphs face" with no effect for the long line (The glyphs face was set correctly). XEmacs 21.1.14 had no problem with this. Roland _____________________________ Siemens Building Technologies AG Roland Schaeuble, F-BM-S1 Laubisruetistrasse 50 CH-8712 Staefa Switzerland Phone: +41 1 928 65 06 Fax: +41 1 928 67 11 Email: schaublr(a)ch.sibt.com