The color customizer only affects applications started on the same screen as the customizer. On multihead systems, you can start a different color customizer for each screen and have a different palette in effect on each screen. The color customizer can be configured so that it is invoked once and affects all applications regardless of where they are started. This mode can be turned on by modifying the Custom.multiScreen resource in the CUSTOM.DAT defaults file as follows: Custom.multiScreen: True The default value is False.