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From: mouse@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu (der Mouse)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Window colormaps on Apollos
Message-ID: <1991Jun29.114707.20086@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu>
Date: 29 Jun 91 11:47:07 GMT
References: <910628.09342369.004113@RMC.CP6>
Organization: McGill Research Centre for Intelligent Machines
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In article <910628.09342369.004113@RMC.CP6>, BUCKHOLTZ_G%RMC.CA@mitvma.mit.EDU writes:

> I have been trying to get colourmaps to work on our Apollos for a
> little while now but with marginal success.  I was under the
> impression that in X if a window became in focus that the colourmap
> for that window would be used for the screen.

Yes and no.  The ICCCM says that this is the window manager's
bailiwick, and most window managers seem to make colormap focus follow
keyboard focus.  But there is no requirement that this be so; it could
require an explicit command to change colormap focus.  (It may even be
impossible, though I would hope such a window manager wouldn't survive
long in the presence of all the good, more intelligent WMs out there.)

Check your window manager's documentation and see what it says.  (If
it's silent on the subject, you probably have a pre-ICCCM window
manager, and should either switch to a modern one or rag on whoever you
got it from to fix it.)

					der Mouse

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