Re: CVS emacs uses all the color cells

[Jan D.]

> on my Solaris workstation (Solaris 5.8 with FVWM as window manager) 
> CVS emacs
> eats up all the color cells. Here's a comparison with emacs 21.3:
>
> 1. xcoloruse: 256 total colors; 46 used 210 available.
>                0 of the used are writeable; 46 are read-only.
> 2. start emacs 21.3
> 3. xcoloruse: 256 total colors; 114 used 142 available.
>                0 of the used are writeable; 114 are read-only.
> 4. exit emacs 21.3
> 5. xcoloruse: 256 total colors; 46 used 210 available.
>                0 of the used are writeable; 46 are read-only.
> 6. start CVS emacs
> 7. xcoloruse: 256 total colors; 256 used 0 available.
>                0 of the used are writeable; 256 are read-only.

Does both 21.3 and CVS use the same toolkit?  Could be the new tool bar
icons, see if this makes any difference:

% emacs --xrm '*toolBar: 0'

> In the News file I found out that I can start emacs with its own 
> colormap.
> But this has 2 annoying side effects:
>
> 1. sometimes other applications change their colors when I switch 
> between
>    applications on different desktops (maybe this is a FVWM problem)

No, that is normal.  It is the WM switching the colormap that shows.

> 2 when I start a 2nd emacs, colors are slightly different

If this is a second Emacs with its own colormap, no difference should be
visible.

> Has anybody observed a similar behavior? And what's the recommended way
> of using emacs when one has only 256 colors.

Turn off things that uses colours, menu bars, tool bars, scroll bars and
so on.

        Jan D.