diff --git a/gdk-pixbuf/ChangeLog b/gdk-pixbuf/ChangeLog
index 04e4aaad68..a19b927dfa 100644
--- a/gdk-pixbuf/ChangeLog
+++ b/gdk-pixbuf/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2000-02-14  Mark Crichton  <crichton@gimp.org>
+
+	* gdk-pixbuf/io-xpm.c (xpm_extract_color): Added check for "g" color type.
+	Imlib/libXpm handle this, but we didn't.
+
 2000-02-14  Darin Adler  <darin@eazel.com>
 
 	* gdk-pixbuf/testpixbuf.c: Remove now-unnecessary cast.
diff --git a/gdk-pixbuf/io-xpm.c b/gdk-pixbuf/io-xpm.c
index 69a3a4e79e..dcc4a8c30a 100644
--- a/gdk-pixbuf/io-xpm.c
+++ b/gdk-pixbuf/io-xpm.c
@@ -195,7 +195,7 @@ xpm_extract_color (const gchar *buffer)
 
 	counter = 0;
 	while (ptr == NULL) {
-		if (buffer[counter] == 'c') {
+		if ((buffer[counter] == 'c') || (buffer[counter] == 'g')) {
 			ch = buffer[counter + 1];
 			if (ch == 0x20 || ch == 0x09)
 				ptr = &buffer[counter + 1];