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

[Ross Patterson]

Martin d'Anjou <address@hidden>
writes:

>>> 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

Likely.  Did you try the workarounds?

Ross