Re: address@hidden: Re: privateColormap X resource]

[Stefan Monnier]

> Can someone please try testing whether the privateColormap X resource
> works in Emacs?  Here is a suggestion for how to test that;
> I would not know how to fill in the details and really do it,
> but maybe some of you know.

This suggestion won't work because Emacs (rightly so from my point of
view) does not automatically switch to a private colormap when it
runs out of colors.  Instead it uses the closest color available,
such that the result is not quite right but is not psychedelic either.

But a long time ago Gerd said (while tracking down a
color-reference-count-overflow bug in XFree triggered by Emacs):

> In the course of cleaning up the color code a bit, I'm now setting the
> XtNcolormap resource of the shell widget.  I think the menu bar should
> inherit that colormap.  An easy way to check this if it does is to run
> Emacs with a private colormap.  Just add the resource
>
>   Emacs.privateColormap: true 

There's also Emacs.visualClass.


        Stefan


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> You wrote: 
> 
> >     I would run it in an 8-bit session, eat up the colourmap with Netrape
> >     or something, and then see if Emacs gets it own (with resulting
> >     psychedelics when you switch window focus).  There may be a better
> >     way.
> > 
> > Can you write a precise recipe for doing this?
> 
> I don't think I can do much better.  I think it would be clear to
> people using 8-bit displays.
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