On Wednesday 26 September 2001 16:02, David Bishop wrote: > > 1. Java and Javascript are not working at all in Konqueror, > > even though both are enabled globally. Whenever I open a document > > with an applet, I get a grey patch saying "Loading applet". I > > have installed jdk1.1. > > Unfortunetly, I have not had much luck at all with java, but that's > because of my proxy. I think the recommended jre is blackdown's, > which is now in unstable (I think, maybe just incoming).
You'll need at least jdk1.2 or jre1.2 in order for Java support in Konqueror to work, as it relies on the Java security manager that is only present in version 1.2 and above. Sun, IBM and Blackdown all have 1.3.0 or 1.3.1 available for Linux. I've tried all of them and have to recommend the Blackdown version - the IBM one is meant to have the fastest virtual machine, but it has problems running quite a few applets that the Sun and Blackdown versions don't. Plus, the Blackdown version is by far the easiest to install (at least on Debian), has the lowest memory overheads, and, most importantly for running applets in a web browser, has the fastest startup time by quite a distance. Blackdown have (big big thank you to them) an apt-get'able debian/ directory on their ftp site which contains all their goodies, and is kept nice and up-to-date. I have this in my sources.list (works great for both testing and sid): deb ftp://ftp.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.blackdown.org/java-linux/debian/ woody non-free but you'll probably want to choose a different ftp mirror of blackdown.org - a mirrors list is here: http://www.blackdown.org/java-linux/mirrors.html There's also a potato subdirectory for those of you running stable, although it's a slightly older version of the JRE/JDK (1.2.something). If you only want applet support and aren't developing stuff yourself in Java - get the jre (java runtime environment) rather than the jdk (java development kit) as the download size is a lot smaller. You may also want to remove the symlink to the Java Netscape plugin (unnecessary with Konqui) it creates in /usr/lib/netscape/plugins-libc6, as this will crash older versions of nspluginscan (I'm not sure if it's been fixed in KDE 2.2.1 but it's certainly a problem with 2.2). If you're using an HTTP or SOCKS proxy then Java ought to pick up on the KDE system settings, although I'm not sure if Java supports authenticating HTTP proxies. If the applets aren't picking up on your KDE proxy settings, then that's a bug in KDE. The package to report the bug under is (I think) kjava. -- marm
