Where have all my colors gone?

[Ken Lee]

In article <1990Nov14.160520.21543 at unx.sas.com>, sasblc at unx.sas.com (Brad Chisholm) writes:
|> On the DEC, however, running mwm results in 141 colors allocated,
|> and running dxwm results in 128 colors allocated.

The DEC session manager allocates 128 colors for the Display PostScript
extension.  This allows Display PostScript programs to start up
faster.  If you don't want this behaviour, put this in your
/.Xdefaults:

XSessionManager*initializeDPS:  False

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Ken Lee
DEC Western Software Laboratory, Palo Alto, Calif.
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