[arch-general] xmonad and java environment

[Henning Garus]

On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 04:34:57PM -0600, Sergey Manucharian wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I've installed openproj from AUR and met the following issue: the
> program runs, but the main GUI window is blank (no buttons, menus -
> nothing), although the dialog windows appear normal. I don't have much
> experience with java, and tried both jre and openjdk6 - with
> the same result. Then I tried to run openproj without any window
> manager, and it worked! I noticed that openjdk6 warns:
>   when you use a non-reparenting window manager
>   set _JAVA_AWT_WM_NONREPARENTING=1 in /etc/profile.d/openjdk6.sh
> So the setting of that env. variable indeed helps with openjdk6, but
> not with jre.
> 
> Any advices?
> 

Use openjdk6 or make XMonad lie about its identity:

http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Xmonad/Frequently_asked_questions#Problems_with_Java_applications.2C_Applet_java_console

Am I the only one who thinks hardcoding a list of WMs is abhorrent design?