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From: phils@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Philip Thompson)
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Subject: Re: twm and colormaps problem.
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Date: 6 Feb 90 23:59:14 GMT
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What machine are you running on?   Twm handles colormaps fine 95%
of the time on our vaxes but not at all on our ibm/RTs.

On vaxes, twm sometimes occasionally ignores the fact that a window
with a specific colormap exists, but a restart will fix the problem.
On our RTs, twm installs the colormap okay but doesn't uninstall it
until the client exits - no matter what you do.
This is with R4 and patches applied.

As a note, here at Athena at MIT, Motif's window manager is the only
one, of those available here (mwm, twm & uwm), that handles colormaps
correctly all the time on vaxes and certainly on rts.

Philip Thompson
Computer Resource Lab, MIT