Announcing: Xwinwrap This is a tool I wrote out of frustration with the JDK's inability to run in a non-default visual or to install a private colormap. Using Xwinwrap, you can do a couple of useful things that are currently unavailable: 1) Install a private colormap... like the "netscape -install" option. No more running out of colors because the default colormap is crowded. 2) Use a non-default X visual. If your default is 8-bit PseudoColor and you want 8-bit GrayScale, Xwinwrap will let you do it... it lets you choose any visual offered by the X server. When the next release of XFree86 offers multiple depths, you can use this feature to run Java in a visual it can handle even if the default visual is one Java can't handle (the cause of those annoying "incompatible with ColorModel" messages). Xwinwrap is not at all Java-specific; it'll work with any X client. But I wrote it to address my frustrations with Java, and suspect some of you will find it useful. It does its thing by implementing a thin shared library to "wrap" around an X client with the LD_PRELOAD capability. To obtain it, visit http://www.teleport.com/~nmeyers/FreeWare/ and look for the section on Xwinwrap. You'll also find a pointer to a README that gives more detail than I've given here. Nathan Meyers [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
