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Why can I install my own colormap using XInstallColormap?

April 26, 2017colormap install

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Why can I install my own colormap using XInstallColormap?

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[Last modified: Nov 96] Answer: You shouldn’t install the colormap yourself using XInstallColormap. See the ICCCM document for all the reasons. Instead put the colormap as an argument on the Shell widget and the window manager will take care of this. When the colormap is installed, unless you have a display with multiple colormaps, the other windows will go “technicolor” and there is no way around this problem. Thanks to Doug Rand (drand@sgi.com) Kenton Lee (http://www.rahul.net/kenton/) adds: Use XtSetWMColormapWindows() to specify non-default colormaps.