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From: rws@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Bob Scheifler)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Colormap strangeness
Message-ID: <8909111203.AA06582@expire.lcs.mit.edu>
Date: 11 Sep 89 12:03:08 GMT
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    Once I create a new colormap, and try to use it, the entire screen goes
    black, except for the picture I'm drawing and the mouse pointer.

    I also tried running "puzzle -cm -pic mandrill.cm".  That changed all the
    colors on my screen!

Going "technicolor" is an expected fallout of running on hardware that only
supports a single physical colormap.

    Unfortunately, I cannot restore the colors to the way they were,

If you are running an ICCCM-compliant window manager, it should support a
way of installing the "right" colormap for a given window.

    not do they revert once the program exits.

This sounds like a server bug, unless you are doing something strange.