[comp.windows.x] Changing root window colormap?

tro@adiron.UUCP (Tom Olin) (02/22/90)

According to section 2.4.6 of the Xlib Programming Manual (O'Reilly's Volume
1), the default colormap of the root window can be changed.  Is that true?
I've tried a few different approaches but have not succeeded yet.

(My reason for doing so, in case you care, is that I need grayscale for images
along with a nice mix of colors for annotation and for other applications, all
without the flashing normally expected from large dynamic colormaps.  I want to
be able to do this on both X/NeWS and Xsun.)

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