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From: zzhang@xihu.inria.fr (Zhengyou Zhang)
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Subject: Re: twm and colormap
Keywords: twm colormap
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Date: 12 Jun 91 09:12:57 GMT
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In article <25228@unix.SRI.COM>, nowlin@ace.sri.com (Bill Nowlin) writes:
> 
> Running under twm, applications are unable to obtain sufficient 
> colormap entries from the default colormap.  Creating a new 
> colormap works, but is ugly as you move in and out of the window 
> owning the new colormap.


What I do is to create a new colormap. I then copy the first, say 20, entries
of the default colormap into my own. It works fine for me.

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