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From: rws@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Bob Scheifler)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Getting Standard Colormaps
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Date: 3 Nov 88 01:11:41 GMT
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    The following swatch of code should retrieve a standard colormap for
    the display, but XGetStandardColormap() fails. I've confirmed that the
    window referenced by RootWindow() has been realized.  Is there
    something else that must happen before this function can succede?

Yes: someone must actually create and store a StandardColormap.  There
aren't any by default in a server, and I don't know of any window managers
that have options to create them.  It's been on our TODO list to write
a library function and a client to create them, but it didn't happen in
time for R3.  If someone wants to contribute code ...