diff --git a/backends/imgui_impl_opengl3.cpp b/backends/imgui_impl_opengl3.cpp
index ed151304..aa0e9e55 100644
--- a/backends/imgui_impl_opengl3.cpp
+++ b/backends/imgui_impl_opengl3.cpp
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
 
 // CHANGELOG
 // (minor and older changes stripped away, please see git history for details)
+//  2020-10-15: OpenGL: Use glGetString(GL_VERSION) instead of glGetIntegerv(GL_MAJOR_VERSION, ...) when the later returns zero (e.g. Desktop GL 2.x)
 //  2020-09-17: OpenGL: Fix to avoid compiling/calling glBindSampler() on ES or pre 3.3 context which have the defines set by a loader.
 //  2020-07-10: OpenGL: Added support for glad2 OpenGL loader.
 //  2020-05-08: OpenGL: Made default GLSL version 150 (instead of 130) on OSX.
@@ -147,9 +148,16 @@ bool    ImGui_ImplOpenGL3_Init(const char* glsl_version)
 {
     // Query for GL version (e.g. 320 for GL 3.2)
 #if !defined(IMGUI_IMPL_OPENGL_ES2)
-    GLint major, minor;
+    GLint major = 0;
+    GLint minor = 0;
     glGetIntegerv(GL_MAJOR_VERSION, &major);
     glGetIntegerv(GL_MINOR_VERSION, &minor);
+    if (major == 0 && minor == 0)
+    {
+        // Query GL_VERSION in desktop GL 2.x, the string will start with "<major>.<minor>"
+        const char* gl_version = (const char*)glGetString(GL_VERSION);
+        sscanf(gl_version, "%d.%d", &major, &minor);
+    }
     g_GlVersion = (GLuint)(major * 100 + minor * 10);
 #else
     g_GlVersion = 200; // GLES 2
diff --git a/docs/CHANGELOG.txt b/docs/CHANGELOG.txt
index e91267d3..b20c1a02 100644
--- a/docs/CHANGELOG.txt
+++ b/docs/CHANGELOG.txt
@@ -55,6 +55,8 @@ Breaking Changes:
 Other Changes:
 
 - Tab Bar: Made it possible to append to an existing tab bar by calling BeginTabBar()/EndTabBar() again.
+- Backends: OpenGL: use glGetString(GL_VERSION) query instead of glGetIntegerv(GL_MAJOR_VERSION, ...) 
+  when the later returns zero (e.g. Desktop GL 2.x). (#3530) [@xndcn]
 - Docs: Split examples/README.txt into docs/BACKENDS.md and docs/EXAMPLES.md improved them.
 - Docs: Consistently renamed all occurences of "binding" and "back-end" to "backend" in comments and docs.