** Description changed: - The recent Java update (~ Aug 14, 2008) breaks some Java applications in - window managers such as Awesome (and others). + The recent Java update for OpenJDK, I believe, (~ 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. + version, it didn't look like the OpenJDK version work with the + parameter. + Sun Version (not sure this one ever worked right with Awesome): Package: sun-java6-jre Source: sun-java6 Version: 6-06-0ubuntu1 + + Old OpenJDK that worked: + 6b09-0ubuntu2 + + New that seemed to break with the update: + 6b11-2ubuntu2
-- Java update breaks apps for some window managers https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/258374 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
