X11 colormaps
Latest update:
'Many people nowadays probably don't even know what it [X11 private
colormap] is: On systems with a limited number of colours (anybody
remembers graphics cards that could only display 256 colours in
parallel) every window could have its own set of colours to use, and
when it got the focus, that map would be installed, rendering all
other windows in funny colours.'
(from fvwm-workers@)
I've actually would looove to use such a hack this days, for it would
be immediately apparent which window is the current one: e.g., in an
ideal magical configuration, the current window uses the usual
24/32bit palette but all other windows render in the grayscale mode.
Tags: ойті
Authors: ag