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From: jac@muslix.llnl.gov (James Crotinger)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Another TWM colormap problem: ximage
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Date: 1 Mar 90 17:43:51 GMT
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Reply-To: jac@muslix.llnl.gov (James Crotinger)
Organization: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory/UC Davis
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  I'm trying to use XImage from NCSA under R4 and TWM. XImage is supposed
to set up its own colormap. This does not seem to work worth beans when
I run it under TWM. When I move my mouse into the window, there is a
flash and for an instant the correct colors are displayed, but then it
changes back to the default colormap. The behavior has tended to be
a bit unpredictable. Under the original R4 release, occaisionally
it would work correctly, and sometimes if it didn't, having TWM
reread the .twmrc file would fix it. Since installing the latest
version of R4 (both MIT patches and the LLNL patches), the unpredictability
has dissipeared: it doesn't work every time 8-). 

  When I run GWM with R4, or pswm with OpenWindows, things work fine. 
Also, when I have TWM reread the .twmrc file, things work fine for the
short amount of time that there is no window-manager running. 

  Has anybody else seen this? Any remedies? Thanks.

  Jim