Re: [RP] Java/JRE/JVM under ratpoison

[Martin d'Anjou]

> > Apparently Java has a problem with non-reparenting window managers of
> > which ratpoison is one:
> >
> >
> > http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do;jsessionid=44019c71215e20142b35729ddd054?bug_id=6574362
> >
> > The symptom is the the java app displays only an empty window and does
> > nothing else.  I found a couple of workarounds and wanted to document
> > them where they might be googleable.
> >
> > Firstly, the problem doesn't exist in Java/JRE/JVM 7 so that's one
> > workaround.  The other workaround is to use AWT_TOOLKIT=MToolkit.  You
> > can either set this as an environment variable or prepend it to the
> > command.  I'm using Jmeter so it looked like:
> >
> >  $ AWT_TOOLKIT=MToolkit bin/jmeter
> Thanks Ross! Feel free to add this info to the wiki as well:
> ratpoison.antidesktop.net

This finding might explain the problem I was having with running 
antlrworks under ratpoison:
http://www.antlr.org:8080/pipermail/antlr-interest/2007-February/019512.html

Martin