> All this talk about netscape and flashing colormaps got me thinking. Would it
> be possible to have a different default colormap for each desktop? That way
> you could have a netscape desktop, an XV desktop, and so on. Each color
> hungry app could eat the whole colormap, without effecting other applications.
> Since the colormap switch would occur while switching desktops, it should be
> less noticable. You also wouldn't have to worry about flashes from moving the
> mouse. I suppose it wouldn't be possible to move a window to a different
> desktop, unless you created a new private colormap for it or something.
>
> Anyone think this is possible? Is there some technical difficulty I
> overlooked?
I've thought about it a lot... since I love my 1280x1024 and really hate
switching to 1152x900 for the gimp to not flash me...
The only problem, which could be major, would be that you couldn't
move applications between desktops. (They wouldn't have the color map
they thought they had...)
It would have to be a new option (or a change to 'sticky') to allow programs
requested colormaps to request one on all the desktops, letting fvwm
handle which colormap is in effect for each.. but even then you'd no
doubt get into a state where you want to move something that didn't
START as sticky to a different desktop and couldn't.
It would be cool, but I don't think it's really doable without making
people hate a lot of other things.
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Received on Wed Jan 08 1997 - 19:57:11 GMT