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From: phil@BRL.MIL (Phil Dykstra)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re:  problems with XGetStandardColorMap()..
Message-ID: <8908281615.aa02195@SPARK.BRL.MIL>
Date: 28 Aug 89 20:15:57 GMT
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    There aren't any clients in R3 that create standard colormaps, so
    your attempt to read one from the server will fail.

Yet every R3 based server that I've layed hands on has returned "Success"
to XGetStandardColormap() while the XStandardColormap struct info is all
zero.  A bug isn't it?  As a workaround I test for a non zero colormap
field in the struct....

The creation of Standard Colormaps is documented as the job of the
window manager (or other clients if they don't exist).  It seems to me
though that these are pretty closely tied to the server specifics and
the Visuals that it supports.  Wouldn't it make sense for the server
to create some of these?

- Phil