diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index f28a4a3..48fdd8c 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -2289,3 +2289,9 @@ Wed Aug 18 14:58:08 PDT 1999	Michael Jennings <mej@eterm.org>
 	Also cleaned up the XIM code to fit with the rest of Eterm.
 	
 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+Wed Aug 18 18:17:14 PDT 1999	Michael Jennings <mej@eterm.org>
+
+	Apparently, FreeBSD has a timer_t already, so I renamed Eterm's.
+	Thanks to Carl Lewis <carl@dpiwe.tas.gov.au> for pointing this out.
+
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/acconfig.h b/acconfig.h
index 19c5077..64f76c8 100644
--- a/acconfig.h
+++ b/acconfig.h
@@ -311,6 +311,7 @@
 #undef NO_XLOCALE
 #undef GREEK_SUPPORT
 #undef CONFIG_SEARCH_PATH
+#undef AUTHORS
 
 
 /* Leave that blank line there!!  Autoheader needs it.
diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index f5a9c94..90e3811 100644
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ DATE="`date '+%d %B %Y'`"
 AC_SUBST(DATE)
 AUTHORS="Michael Jennings (mej@eterm.org) and Tuomo Venäläinen (vendu@cc.hut.fi) "
 AC_SUBST(AUTHORS)
+AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED(AUTHORS, "$AUTHORS")
 
 dnl# Supply default CFLAGS, if not specified by `CFLAGS=flags ./configure'
 if test ! -z "${CFLAGS}" -o ! -z "${CCOPTS}"; then
diff --git a/src/options.c b/src/options.c
index 99cbdd3..04850ff 100644
--- a/src/options.c
+++ b/src/options.c
@@ -479,7 +479,7 @@ usage(void)
   unsigned short i, col;
 
   printf("Eterm Enlightened Terminal Emulator for X Windows\n");
-  printf("Copyright (c) 1997-1999, Tuomo Venalainen and Michael Jennings\n\n");
+  printf("Copyright (c) 1997-1999, " AUTHORS "\n\n");
   printf("Usage for " APL_NAME " " VERSION ":\n\n");
   printf("%7s %17s %40s\n", "POSIX", "GNU", "Description");
   printf("%8s %10s %41s\n", "=======", "===============================",
diff --git a/src/timer.c b/src/timer.c
index 716a7a1..e4eaa86 100644
--- a/src/timer.c
+++ b/src/timer.c
@@ -45,20 +45,20 @@ static const char cvs_ident[] = "$Id$";
 #include "pixmap.h"
 #include "timer.h"
 
-static timer_t *timers = NULL;
+static etimer_t *timers = NULL;
 
 timerhdl_t
 timer_add(unsigned long msec, timer_handler_t handler, void *data) {
 
-  static timer_t *timer;
+  static etimer_t *timer;
   struct timeval tv;
   static struct timezone tz;
 
   if (!timers) {
-    timers = (timer_t *) MALLOC(sizeof(timer_t));
+    timers = (etimer_t *) MALLOC(sizeof(etimer_t));
     timer = timers;
   } else {
-    timer->next = (timer_t *) MALLOC(sizeof(timer_t));
+    timer->next = (etimer_t *) MALLOC(sizeof(etimer_t));
     timer = timer->next;
   }
   timer->msec = msec;
@@ -75,8 +75,8 @@ timer_add(unsigned long msec, timer_handler_t handler, void *data) {
 unsigned char
 timer_del(timerhdl_t handle) {
 
-  register timer_t *current;
-  timer_t *temp;
+  register etimer_t *current;
+  etimer_t *temp;
 
   if (timers == handle) {
     timers = handle->next;
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ timer_change_delay(timerhdl_t handle, unsigned long msec) {
 void
 timer_check(void) {
 
-  register timer_t *current;
+  register etimer_t *current;
   struct timeval tv;
   static struct timezone tz;
 
diff --git a/src/timer.h b/src/timer.h
index a19b4d9..bc3920f 100644
--- a/src/timer.h
+++ b/src/timer.h
@@ -39,8 +39,8 @@
 
 /************ Structures ************/
 typedef unsigned char (*timer_handler_t)(void *);
-typedef struct timer_struct timer_t;
-typedef timer_t *timerhdl_t;  /* The timer handles are actually pointers to a timer_t struct, but clients shouldn't use them as such. */
+typedef struct timer_struct etimer_t;
+typedef etimer_t *timerhdl_t;  /* The timer handles are actually pointers to a etimer_t struct, but clients shouldn't use them as such. */
 struct timer_struct {
   unsigned long msec;
   struct timeval time;