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Subject: Re: How does the X protocol deal with colors ?
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Date: 26 Jul 89 18:34:04 GMT
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    Does it use the 2 colormap entries (pixel value) or does it use the rgb
    values to do the logical combination ?

*All* graphics ops (even those in windows) are based purely on pixel values.
(Another hint of this for pixmaps: pixmaps don't *have* visuals or colormaps.)