It sounds like a solution wich could work if you had access to the Xlib source. Problem here is that thoose applications run on a HPUX and it would be just a little too complicated process for me to fix that.
I have one question though, what is the default colormap? If its the same as the active (I assume its not since you answered "default explicity") then it would never be a problem. But say, if the window manager kept track of whats been allocated for a certain window (or just whats not allocated when it started). Can it than unallocate thoose colors or can only the application do that? Because if it can. It can remember what it unallocated and then alloacte back and vice versa when it switches between windows. //Gustaf _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert