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Article #36549Re: colormap problem with xlock
From: Joshua Osborne
Date: Thu, 08 Feb 1990 12:52
Date: Thu, 08 Feb 1990 12:52
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In article <97@gilroy.dec.com> mikey@decwrl.dec.com (Mike Yang) writes:
[...]
>The problem is that xlock calls XInstallColormap itself, instead of
>setting the colormap window attribute and letting the window manager
>peform the installation, as the ICCCM states.
[...]
>The version of twm shipped with R4 enforces this convention and
>negates the installation by reinstalling the colormaps it wants
>installed. Therefore, the hardware colors are not as xlock expectes,
>and this would explain why things "don't look right."
>
>The solutions are to fix xlock to follow ICCCM conventions, or to use
>a less restrictive window manager.
I fixed my version to not install color maps, and to instruct the window
manager to do it (I use twm right now). However the colormap *STILL* doesn't
look right. The qix is made of the colors allocated by the other clients,
half of which are black. The code seems to make a HSB map for the qix but
I have never seen it. Life and hop (the fractals) also seem to suffer from
an overabundance of black. I am shure twm installs my colormap, I set the
ColormapChangeMask bit so I could get colormap notify events. I recieve one
on the xlock window for the cmap that xlock creates, and I never see it get
uninstalled. So something strange is up with colormaps, do I not only have
to tell twm to install my map, but that I changed it? That doesn't seem
right...
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!ark1!nems!mimsy!mojo!stripes From: stripes@eng.umd.edu (Joshua Osborne) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: colormap problem with xlock Keywords: xlock, twm, colormap Message-ID: <1990Feb8.125225.20221@eng.umd.edu> Date: 8 Feb 90 12:52:25 GMT References: <17381@duke.cs.duke.edu> <97@gilroy.dec.com> Sender: news@eng.umd.edu (The News System) Organization: Maryversity of Uniland, College Park Lines: 29