[13960] in Athena Bugs
netscape problem
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Babak Nivi)
Mon Oct 30 13:42:08 1995
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 1995 13:41:47 EST
From: Babak Nivi <nivi@MIT.EDU>
This is not as much a bug as it is a problem with netscape in the
infoagents locker. netscape seems to want "hog" the colormap so that
other programs like emacs and xsetroot cannot allocate the colors that
they need. I consistently observe this behavior on the suns.
To me, this is a problem. I don't think that any application should be
able to hog the colormap so that other applications can't allocate
colors. For example, whenever xv uses a private colormap, you can only
see the correct colors when the cursor is in the xv window. This is
good behavior. netscape's behavior is not.
Babak Nivi
nivi@mit.edu
Sign my PETITION.
