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From: stroyan@hpfcdc.HP.COM (Mike Stroyan)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Window Managers, PseudoColor Displays, and "Technicolor"
Message-ID: <6910010@hpfcdc.HP.COM>
Date: 5 Sep 89 17:13:15 GMT
References: <1989Sep1.215106.11404@agate.uucp>
Organization: HP Ft. Collins, Co.
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> csvsj@garnet.berkeley.edu (Steve Jacobson) /  3:51 pm  Sep  1, 1989 /

> The twm window manager changes colormap focus by tracking the mouse - wherever
> the mouse is, that window's colormap is used

> The DEC dxwm window manager handles this a little better. Colormap and
> keyboard focus are linked together, and focus follows mouse clicks rather
> than window exits and enters.

Continuing your survey of window managers, the hpwm and mwm (OSF Motif)
window managers have .Xdefaults controlled selection of colormap focus
policy.  They can be configured to "pointer", "explicit", or "keyboard"
colormap focus.  The f.focus_color operation can be configured in the
.mwmrc file to a button, key or menu.  Their is also a "f.next_cmap"
operation that cycles through the windows listed in a top level window's
WM_COLORMAP_WINDOWS property.

Mike Stroyan, stroyan@hpfcla.hp.com