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From: rws@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Colormaps
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Date: 24 Jul 89 11:53:44 GMT
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    So unlike most of X, colormaps don't (won't, shouldn't) work if there's
    no window manager running?

Few things in life are perfect.  X11 was "out" before the colormap facilities
had significant use.  There is a definite tension between making clients act
the same both with and without a window manager, and making them work correctly
and reasonably.  The ICCCM chooses the latter, which is by far the more
common case, and accepts that a window manager must be running for certain
expectations to be met.  If your application needs to function when no window
manager is running, you can give it a command line flag or something to
distinguish the two cases.