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

[Ross Patterson]

"Shawn Betts" <address@hidden> writes:

> On Dec 6, 2007 4:27 PM, Ross Patterson <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> 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

Done.  Thanks.

Ross