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From: roger@hpnmdla.hp.com (Roger Petersen)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Color background for X-windows
Message-ID: <990022@hpnmdla.hp.com>
Date: 24 Mar 91 05:34:07 GMT
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In comp.windows.x, keinert@IASTATE.EDU (Keinert Fritz) writes:

| > Is X11R4 able to display color bitmaps in the xsetroot commmand?
| > or any other way to display color bitmaps in the background?

| Also, the window managers I have tried (mwm and twm) do not recycle colors.
| If you have a background with 150 colors, and you try to replace it with
| one with 120 colors, this will not work. Basically, you get one fancy color
| picture per login.

This was a problem with a very old version of xloadimage (1.03 or so).
Since then, I'm sure it has been fixed.

A properly written X program will set a property on the root window,
to allow other programs to free the allocated color cells, and re-use them.

Roger