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Why do I get BadMatch errors, crashes, blue-on-blue text, etc.?

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Why do I get BadMatch errors, crashes, blue-on-blue text, etc.?

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Many Linux systems use a single X visual and colormap for all windows by default; IRIX doesn’t. As a result there are a variety of bugs lurking in the source code where programmers have, for example, allocated colors in the wrong colormap or assumed that all windows have the same depth.