Why do the ECCE user interfaces sometimes display improper colors making them unreadable?
This commonly occurs when ECCE is run at the same time as other colormap intensive applications (e.g. netscape without the “-install” option). Color allocations may fail resulting in unreadable text, garbled pixmaps, etc. If possible, exit out of any unnecessary applications freeing up X windows colormap entries. Much work has gone into making ECCE conserve colors. However other applications that display graphics beyond the control of the application (e.g. web pages) allocate many more colors exhausting the colormap.
