From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [d.love@dl.ac.uk: Re: privateColormap X resource] Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 12:17:24 -0500 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <200210291426.g9TEQTF15534@rum.cs.yale.edu> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1036002368 5373 80.91.224.249 (30 Oct 2002 18:26:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 18:26:08 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 186xXb-0001OU-00 for ; Wed, 30 Oct 2002 19:26:07 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 186xcn-0001al-00 for ; Wed, 30 Oct 2002 19:31:30 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 186xXX-00081C-00; Wed, 30 Oct 2002 13:26:03 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 186wTu-0007Ki-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Oct 2002 12:18:14 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 186wT6-0006qj-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Oct 2002 12:17:30 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 186wT6-0006ps-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Oct 2002 12:17:24 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.10) id 186wT6-0002uC-00; Wed, 30 Oct 2002 12:17:24 -0500 Original-To: monnier+gnu/emacs@rum.cs.yale.edu In-reply-to: <200210291426.g9TEQTF15534@rum.cs.yale.edu> (monnier+gnu/emacs@rum.cs.yale.edu) Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:8962 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:8962 But a long time ago Gerd said (while tracking down a color-reference-count-overflow bug in XFree triggered by Emacs): > In the course of cleaning up the color code a bit, I'm now setting the > XtNcolormap resource of the shell widget. I think the menu bar should > inherit that colormap. An easy way to check this if it does is to run > Emacs with a private colormap. Just add the resource > > Emacs.privateColormap: true Could you spell out for me how this relates to the issue? I don't know these aspects of X well enough to figure out the connection. I don't even know enough to understand this: > Can someone please try testing whether the privateColormap X resource > works in Emacs? Here is a suggestion for how to test that; > I would not know how to fill in the details and really do it, > but maybe some of you know. This suggestion won't work because Emacs (rightly so from my point of view) does not automatically switch to a private colormap when it runs out of colors. What does it mean to say this "won't work"? It was only meant to test whether a certain X resource has a real effect. It "works" if it provides a valid answer to the question. Are you saying that the test won't proviude valid information about that question?