Re: 2 mysterious bugs

[Sven Thommesen]

At 10:15 PM 6/25/96 PDT, Doug Donalson wrote:
>If you haven't gotten a reply to this yet here is 
>an answer.  X-11 has a small color map which lots
>of apps use.  If something is already using it then
>heatbugs can't.  This includes things like netscape. 
>If you are having this problem the first thing to do
>is to close any other X apps.  I cannot run SWARM color
>apps if netscape is active.  (There is supposidly 
>a netscape command that will force it to use other colors
>but I haven't bothered to find it yet.)  Anyway, this
>is a problem that shows up fairly regulary on the SWARM
>hot line.
>
>Doug Donalson
>UCSB Ecology, Evoloution, and Marine Biology
>

I appreciate the answer, which brings up the inevitable follow-up:
is there a way to increase the size of the colormap in X (short
of rewriting X) ? If this is a common swarm-user problem,
perhaps someone has a fix? 

--Sven