Here is my $.02:
Switch to Windowmaker.
Java works great .. AWT and Swing!
john
On 30-Sep-99 Michael Emmel wrote:
> Peter Graves wrote:
>
>> The authors of the Enlightenment window manager have some
>> interesting comments today about Java:
>>
>> http://www.enlightenment.org/news.html
>>
>> Their basic point is that "Java under X (AWT) is Broken"; they
>> don't mention which Java implementation they're referring to.
>>
>> I don't think things are all that bad with either version of the
>> Blackdown port (or with the new IBM 1.1.8 implementation either,
>> for that matter), but I have noticed that dialogs (in particular)
>> tend to drift a bit under various window managers, even though
>> there's explicit code in the application to save and restore
>> their position. Both Enlightenment and Windowmaker seem to have
>> this problem, but icewm, last time I checked, did not. Windows
>> VMs don't seem to have this problem at all.
>>
>
> Actually java works well under KDE some bugs under Windowmaker major bugs
> under Enlightenment .
> Gnome seems to break stuff too.
> I wont except bug reports for linux unless there verified under KDE.
>
> Also java works under all the other Unixes Sun/SGI/HP that I've tested.
>
> I'd say its Enlightenment plus Gnome does not help. If your the only badly
> busted platfrom
> it aint X.
>
> Mike
>
>
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