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razdan@chanakya.oakhill.uucp (Anshuman Razdan) writes:

>Well, When I run xlock (particularly qix) it runs fine
>and since I did not not know how the patterns should look like,
>I had no idea what it was supposed to do.  It was drawing the patterns
>but would draw only limited portion of the patterns.  Seems like it could not
>find all the colors it wanted to use.

>Now if I run xcolors (progrram in contrib dir) before I run xlock - wow
>suddenly I have this beautiful pattern on the screen with hell of a lot of colors.

>I looked into the code of xcolors and cannot find any thing in particular that would initiate
>this behaviour (unless it is XtConvert in the do-color routine).

xlock seems to use the pixel-values without regarding the entries of
the colormap. Most of the entries are set to black, when x is started.
Use xshowcmap to see the color of all pixels. xcolors allocates a lot of
colors and the colormap is changed by that.

Helmut Hoenig.