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From: klee@wsl.dec.com (Ken Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Help wanted: Number of colors?
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Date: 10 Apr 91 18:11:19 GMT
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In article <9104100456.AA13974@pyr.csuhayward.edu>, wang@pyr.csuhayward.EDU (Hong Wang) writes:
|> Using SunView, I can get fullly 256 colors on the screen. But, I can
|> only get 128 colors with X server(using default colormap).

Some other client has allocated the other 128 colors.  If you really
need all 256 colors, you should create a new colormap.  Use the ICCCM
procedure to have it installed.

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Ken Lee
DEC Western Software Laboratory, Palo Alto, Calif.
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