diff --git a/.znewterm b/.znewterm
index fd65a85..0e45ddc 100644
--- a/.znewterm
+++ b/.znewterm
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ then
 	then
 	    . ~/.zxtermcolors
 	else
-	    perl -e 'printf(qq{if whence xtermcontrol >/dev/null\nthen\nxtermcontrol --bg "#%02X%02X%02X"\nexport BG=light\nfi\n}, map { rand(128)+128 } qw(1 1 1))' > ~/.zxtermcolors
+	    perl -e 'printf(qq{if whence xtermcontrol >/dev/null\nthen\nxtermcontrol --bg "#%02X%02X%02X" --fg "#000000"\nexport BG=light\nfi\n}, map { rand(128)+128 } qw(1 1 1))' > ~/.zxtermcolors
 	fi
 fi
 
diff --git a/.zshrc b/.zshrc
index 0c0f63b..542968d 100644
--- a/.zshrc
+++ b/.zshrc
@@ -121,7 +121,16 @@ fi
 # don't want to recreate that mess manually.
 if [ -d ~/bin/func ]
 then
+    export FPATH
     FPATH=`preppath -v FPATH ~/bin/func`
+    # We also have to mark all functions explicitely as undefined,
+    # or zsh won't look for them. (Is this new? I thought that zsh would
+    # automatically search for unknown commands in FPATH, too. Maybe
+    # there's an option for that.)
+    for f in ~/bin/func/*
+    do
+        typeset -fu $(basename $f)
+    done
 fi
 
 # for new style completion: