Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!ccut!wnoc-tyo-news!ascwide!ascgw!fgw2!fgw!pfrad!ace!melby From: melby@daffy.yk.Fujitsu.CO.JP (John B. Melby) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: Help wanted: Number of colors? Message-ID: Date: 11 Apr 91 14:55:19 GMT References: <9104100456.AA13974@pyr.csuhayward.edu> <1991Apr10.111119@wsl.dec.com> Sender: news@ace.yk.fujitsu.co.jp Organization: Open Systems Dept. Div. 2 Sect. 3, FUJITSU LTD. Lines: 14 Nntp-Posting-Host: daffy In-reply-to: klee@wsl.dec.com's message of 11 Apr 91 03:11:19 JST >[...] If you really >need all 256 colors, you should create a new colormap. Use the ICCCM >procedure to have it installed. I recall seeing a discussion on this topic earlier. The ICCCM states that the client should let the window manager install its colormaps, but if there is no window manager running, this will have no effect. (yes, I know, the user _should_ be using a window manager... :-) ) ----- John B. Melby Fujitsu Limited, Machida, Japan melby%yk.fujitsu.co.jp@uunet