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Thanx Marcus
To me it is a bug.. I mean why earth do need a GUI, virtual or otherwise,
to resize an image, that will never be shown on any screen.
I just wanna slap Sun :)
Chris
On Sat, 03 Jun 2000 15:24:37 +0200, Markus Kemmerling wrote:
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>At 15:19 30.05.00 -0400, you wrote:
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>>It's an old problem having to do with the xlibs being loaded as soon as
>>you use anything related to awt. To work around it you just have to
>>start a fake xserver. I forget exactly how, you can ask them at the
>>blackdown mailing list.
>>
>>Brevsville Administrator wrote:
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>> > So why X11?? it is not drawing on any wm, it is just loading an image. I
>> > do have X installed, but gee I haven't run it for ages and can't see any
>> > reason why this code would rely on X at all.
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>i came along the same problem some days ago. it's annoying.
>
>you best use the X virtual frame buffer xvbf which probably came with your
>linux distribution. it's a leightweight X server writing to memory instead
>of a real device. it's normally used for testing.
>
>you have to pass the DISPLAY environment variable to the JVM via
> wrapper.env=DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:1
>in jserv.properties. (you could use 127.0.0.1:0, but this is normally used
>for the real screen on your machine, so you better use screen 1).
>
>i also had to
>- give the JVM access to the X server:
> xhost +127.0.0.1
>- explicitely tell the xvbf to use 8 bit colors by starting it with the
>following option: (to get the colors right)
> /usr/X11/bin/xvbf :1 -screen 0 800x600x8
>(the resolution doesn't matter, the 8 is important)
>
>good luck!
>
>for me this is a bug (at least with respect to portability), for sun it's a
>r'equests for enhancement' (they call it headless java). it ranges quite
>high in the list of the top 25 rfe's. so to get sun to fix this problem
>soon, go to their web site an vote for it!
>
>markus kemmerling
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