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From: rws@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Bob Scheifler)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: XInstallColormap question
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Date: 21 Jul 90 19:29:05 GMT
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    I thought
    that when a new colormap is installed  (i.e when
    I move into an application window) ONLY the
    color entries for pixels (in the harware colormap) that have
    been allocated by the application sould be
    modified.

A good server would probably do this, but there's no such requirement.
(I don't know if there are many good servers, in this regard. :-)
The protocol is only meant to guarantee that the installed maps have
correct colors, not that any particular remnants of uninstalled maps
have correct colors.