--- rxvt-unicode/src/rxvttoolkit.C	2006/01/30 16:12:58	1.35
+++ rxvt-unicode/src/rxvttoolkit.C	2006/01/30 17:49:48	1.37
@@ -605,7 +605,7 @@
   // FUCKING Xft gets it wrong, of course, so work around it
   // transparency users should eat shit and die, and then
   // XRenderQueryPictIndexValues themselves plenty.
-  if (screen->visual->c_class == TrueColor
+  if ((screen->visual->c_class == TrueColor || screen->visual->c_class == DirectColor)
       && (format = XRenderFindVisualFormat (screen->xdisp, screen->visual)))
     {
       // the fun lies in doing everything manually...
@@ -635,7 +635,7 @@
 
   return false;
 #else
-  if (screen->visual->c_class == TrueColor)
+  if (screen->visual->c_class == TrueColor || screen->visual->c_class == DirectColor)
     {
       p = (rgba.r * (screen->visual->red_mask   >> ctz (screen->visual->red_mask  ))
                   / rxvt_rgba::MAX_CC) << ctz (screen->visual->red_mask  )