colors in Afterstep

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Hello,

first I want to apalogize if this is not the right list to ask it to.
But I'm a little confused about using colors.

I'm using 8bit colors, so I can use 256 colors simultaniously in my Xserver.  Does
Afterstep allocates those 256 colors in advance ? I thought that every 
application could do that on their own.  And if the former is true, which 
colors are allocated ?

The reason I'm asking this is the following : when I start Afterstep
I'm pretty sure that I'm not using 256 colors.  I do have a background 
(black/grey) and wharf uses the ASBBlockMarble texture.  But that are
at most 100 colors or so.  
When I'm trying to start xmcd (a CD player), it says that it cannot
allocate a color entry for let's say "Yellow".  So my 256 color
entries are all used ?
When I start Netscape there is no problem ?!? I thought Netscape uses
lots of colors and my CD-app is using almost 10 ?!?

Is there a way to see how many colors-entries are still available ?


Thanks for any explanation,
Bart De Win.

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