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From: mouse@LARRY.MCRCIM.MCGILL.EDU (der Mouse)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Colormaps
Message-ID: <8907240421.AA17967@Larry.McRCIM.McGill.EDU>
Date: 24 Jul 89 04:21:37 GMT
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> As you can see from reading the Inter-Client Communications
> Conventions Manual, obedient applications are enjoined from ever
> calling InstallColormap.  Instead, applications that wish to install
> a single colormap are encouraged to use ChangeWindowAttributes to set
> that colomap as the colormap of their top-level window.

So unlike most of X, colormaps don't (won't, shouldn't) work if there's
no window manager running?  (Or is the X server supposed to figure out
that there's no wm running and do the InstallColormap itself? :-)

					der Mouse

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