On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 04:41:59PM +0500, Paul Ashford wrote: > I run IDEA under Linux. On Linux, I run WindowMaker. The code insight > popup displays the insight window, and dissapears right away. I tried > under Gnome, and there was no problem. I sent an email to the > WindowMaker list, and this was my response: > > > The "problem" is that Window Maker is ICCCM-compliant. > Those Java IDE's do something inapropriate with their window size hints > to the window manager: They specify a window with minimum and maximum > sizes of 1x1 pixel, and then size those windows beyond those limits. > Fixing this would probably break other, properly behaving, programs > (hard to say beforehand). > > So, what is the response to this from this list? I would really like to > get this working! I really enjoy coding in IDEA, and would rather use > WindowMaker than Gnome, so that other programs can use the free memory.
I went through the same thing also. IDEA does exhibit the 1x1 problem when using the Sun JDK, but not IBM's. That is separate from the popup problem, though. The popups are appearing as the correct size and in the correct location, but they just dissapear immediately, as you noticed. WindowMaker is the only window manager that I could find to exhibit this behavior, and thus I feel it is a WindowMaker bug. I tried to report it as a bug to the wmaker developers, but I didn't do a good enough job and thus was ignored. Feel free to report this as a wmaker bug. Just give *exact* duplication instructions, step by step from downloading IDEA to reproducing the error. I believe fixing one popup will fix them all. The alternative would be to get a small testcase program from the IntelliJ crew that just reproduces the popup error in wmaker. The primary wmaker developer is on a modem line thus a smaller testcase to download would be ideal. In the meantime, it drove me batty enough to switch to KDE. I found a nice program called kappdock that lets me use my dockapps and I'm good to go :) -pete -- (peter.royal|osi)@pobox.com - http://pobox.com/~osi jabber/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] - icq/ 153025 - aim/ osifx - yahoo/ osi_fx your brain on life - http://fotap.org - incubating
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