CVS emacs uses all the color cells

[Klaus Zeitler]

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.


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

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

Klaus

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|  Klaus Zeitler      Lucent Technologies  |
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