The problem at hand is caused by commit 3e62f48edf47a59d923ac58b6d4262b02456a556
which has caused similar problems to others as pointed out by jcristau: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54168 Reverting the patch and recompiling xserver-xorg 1.12.3.902-1 did fix the problem. Apparently with the change xserver-xorg has problems reading some xpm files which are identified by imagemagick as having "16-bit PseudoClass" while working files have "16-bit DirectClass". If it helps I can send examples of the nonworking XPM files. Regards, Michael -- It's an insane world, but i'm proud to be a part of it. -- Bill Hicks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-x-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120926203824.ga21...@fqdn.org