rws@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Bob Scheifler) (09/01/90)
So, I would like to copy the "most frequently" used colors from the
default (shared) colormap into my private one. This would minimize
color flashing...
I agree something is desirable. I've been thinking that it might be adequate
for the window manager to attach a property to the root window, giving a list
of pixels (from the default colormap) in decreasing priority order that
clients with independent colormaps might wish to preserve. The window manager
can include the border color pixels in this list, for example, and pixels for
colors from common menus. The end user might specify other common colors by
giving the window manager a list of colors for thw WM to go ahead and allocate
read-only, just to stick in the list. I'm not sure it would be worth inventing
a mechanism for each client to hand prioritized pixels back to the WM.
Do you think this kind of mechanism provide what you need?