Q. How can I specify that AVS/Express not take all the colors in the colormap when it starts up?

A. The environment variable NE_VIRTPAL_CUBE_SIZE controls the size of the color cube. You can set NE_VIRTPAL_CUBE_SIZE to a value between 2 and 6. The default value is 5, which causes the NE to grab 125 colors for drawing ports, connections, and pixmaps. The GD Kit also uses this color cube if it needs to render in the default visual (the GD Kit will try to use the best visual on the system, regardless of what the default visual is). Under UNIX, Motif grabs around 20 more colors for drawing widgets.