Public bug reported:
The recent Java update (~ Aug 14, 2008) breaks some Java applications in
window managers such as Awesome (and others).
>From the Awesome FAQ:
"Java applications which use the XToolkit/XAWT backend may draw grey windows
only. The XToolkit/XAWT backend breaks ICCCM-compliance in recent JDK 1.5 and
early JDK 1.6 versions, because it assumes a reparenting window manager. As a
workaround you can use JDK 1.4 (which doesn´t contain the XToolkit/XAWT
backend) or you can set the following environment variable (to use the older
Motif backend instead): AWT_TOOLKIT=MToolkit"
Not sure how you would handle this but my application was working fine
before the update and then broke unceremoniously afterward -- switching
to another WM worked fine as did adding the AWT_TOOLKIT parameter. It
just took a little research to find a fix.
I was switching back and forth between the sun-java package and the
openjdk -- I was able to get the parameter method to work using the sun
version.
Package: sun-java6-jre
Source: sun-java6
Version: 6-06-0ubuntu1
** Affects: ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Java update breaks apps for some window managers
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/258374
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