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Subject: Re: Colormap visuals
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Date: 25 Jul 89 12:03:04 GMT
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    But you cannot find out later from the server what this visual is. 

Yup, a misfeature of the protocol.  You have to know a window that the
colormap is associated with, and do a GetWindowAttributes on it.