Apparently Java has a problem with non-reparenting window managers of which ratpoison is one:
http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do;jsessionid=44019c71215e20142b35729ddd054?bug_id=6574362 The symptom is the the java app displays only an empty window and does nothing else. I found a couple of workarounds and wanted to document them where they might be googleable. Firstly, the problem doesn't exist in Java/JRE/JVM 7 so that's one workaround. The other workaround is to use AWT_TOOLKIT=MToolkit. You can either set this as an environment variable or prepend it to the command. I'm using Jmeter so it looked like: $ AWT_TOOLKIT=MToolkit bin/jmeter Just FYI. Ross _______________________________________________ Ratpoison-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/ratpoison-devel
