Appeal No. 1998-2699 Application 08/387,504 the various X server participants differ in their support of visual classes. An application requests the allocation and initialization of non-shareable colorcells and is displayed in a conference such that the colors for each X server participant are as close to that requested by the application as the hardware supports. The conference enabler distributes all of the non-sharable request to each participant in the conference that supports the request. For those participants that do not support the request, a no-color request is sent in place of the allocation request, and an allocate color or allocate name color order is sent in place of the initialization request. A further understanding of the invention can be obtained by the following claim. 1. A method for an X windows conferencing enabler to support applications that use non-shareable colorcells while running in a conference in which a plurality of X server participants differ in their support of visual classes comprises the steps of: allocating non-shareable colorcells for a requesting application; -2-Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007