Glenn Valenta wrote:
>"Andrew R. Post" wrote:
>>
>> My experience is that Jdk1.2.2 for Linux reacts very badly with Sawmill:
>> default window positioning is partially off the upper left corner of the
>> screen, Swing GUI elements are cut-off at the edges of windows, and
>> general slowness. Running mwm instead makes these problems go away.
>> Perhaps the same interactions occur with Sawmill on Solaris.
>>
>
>I'm having the same positioning problems using enlightenment as well. I have
>had the same positioning problem since I switched to Linux. I've been told it's
>a problem with the jdk but the blackdown team say it's a problem in XFree86.
>For some reason though, my work computer, with the same software, doesn't have
>the problem.
Sounds like my least favourite Java bug, again. 4102292 in the JDC bug
database.
The Blackdown JDK 1.3.0 FCS now works correctly on Linux with fvwm 1.24r,
but not when I run the application across the network to the same window
manager with the same configuration running on Solaris.
My understanding (though this is hearsay) is that the root of the problem is
a design decision by Sun to support certain MS Windows window behaviour. As
a result of this the Java runtime is interfering with the proper placement of
windows by the window manager on X platforms. Until this design decision is
changed Sun and Blackdown are forced to kludge the runtime to support each and
every window manager. This is crazy. They'll never be able to support all
window managers.
If they were to do the Right Thing and let the window manager manage windows
there wouldn't be /any/ code in the Java runtime to override the window
positions determined by the window manager.
Ron
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