We've noticed a problem with the Metal look-and-feel and 16 bit color.I run my desktop at 16 bit color depth and have never had a problem with the Metal look & feel in any app (our own or 3rd party).Basically, if an X server is set to 16 bit color depth, then applications
(specifically NetBeans Developer) will not load the Metal look and feel --
subsequently crashing.Is this an issue with the motif libraries that are linked in with java at
this time? If the color depth is set to 8 bit or 24 or 32 bit then
everything works fine, no problems. It is only an issue that arises with
the 16 bit color depth.
I fired up a copy of Netbeans ( DeveloperX2 2.1.1) to check it out and it comes up fine in Metal (can also switch back and forth between Metal and Motif L&F without problem). This works fine with both Blackdown JDK1.1.7v3 and JDK1.2pre v2.
I'm on Redhat 6.0, so that's:
Kernel 2.2.5-15
XFree86 3.3.1-49
and I use the stock XF86_SVGA XServer, works without problem on my setup.
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