[arch-general] xmonad and java environment

[Bojan Matic]

On Sat, 26 Sep 2009 00:46:25 +0200
Henning Garus <henning.garus at googlemail.com> wrote:

> 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?

You're the only one who thinks he's the only one :P