Has the possibility been considered of adding a command line switch to XEmacs to start it using a private colormap? Netscape has the -install option for exactly the purpose I have in mind. The lack of this functionality is one of the prime reasons I never use W3, and also view graphic image MIME attachments using an external viewer. One colorful image eats up all my available colors, and thereafter, every time I start a new X client, I get nice substitute color combinations of black on white or worse, white on white, or black on black, until I exit the current XEmacs session, freeing up some colors. Naturally, if I weren't limited to 8-bit color, this would not be a problem, but I am, and I suspect many others are as well. Please regard this a feature request. If it has already been considered by the developers and rejected for some worthy reason, please respond anyhow. -- Lynn D. Newton Motorola Computer Group Tempe, AZ http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~lnewton