FVWM: color allocation

From: Jim Nicholson <jim_at_pcks.digex.net>
Date: Thu, 9 Jan 1997 22:06:58 -0500

Trent Piepho writes:
> All this talk about netscape and flashing colormaps got me thinking. Would it
> be possible to have a different default colormap for each desktop? That way
> you could have a netscape desktop, an XV desktop, and so on. Each color
> hungry app could eat the whole colormap, without effecting other applications.
> Since the colormap switch would occur while switching desktops, it should be
> less noticable. You also wouldn't have to worry about flashes from moving the
> mouse. I suppose it wouldn't be possible to move a window to a different
> desktop, unless you created a new private colormap for it or something.

I don't have the colormap problem anymore, since I upgraded to 24
bit color. However, I _do_ have 4 desks, with one each for xterms,
netscape & xdir, xemacs, and xv & gimp. I'd strongly support a
per-desk colormap option.

I don't understand the module interface too well, but I wonder if
colormap management could either be built into FvwmPager or done as a
separate module.

- Jim
jimnicholson_at_worldnet.att.net
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Received on Thu Jan 09 1997 - 23:50:52 GMT

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