On Sun, 28 Feb 2016 14:44:04 -0800 tony mancill <tmanc...@debian.org> wrote: > Hmmm... What window manager are you using? It's a bit suspicious that > the application works correctly as root but not as a normal user for you. I'm using KWin.
$ apt-cache policy kwin-x11 kwin-x11: Installed: 4:5.4.3-1.1 Candidate: 4:5.4.3-1.1 Version table: *** 4:5.4.3-1.1 990 990 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian testing/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status > You might want to check the ownership of the files beneath: > > ~/.java/.userPreferences/edu/umd/cs/findbugs/ > That folder doesn't exist, but I have folder ~/.java/.userPrefs/edu/umd/cs/findbugs The current user has all permissions and ownerships on all files and folders. > findbugs is going to want to write a prefs.xml file beneath that tree. > If the permissions and ownership all look reasonable, you might try > deleting the entire tree with: > > rm -rf ~/.java/.userPreferences/edu/umd/cs/findbugs I tried, then I run findbugs and the folder was NOT created back. > You can use "sudo update-alternatives --config java" to set this up > system-wide. Tried still with no luck.