Hi list, let me first say that Sun are incredibly stupid. I mean really. Astoundingly stupid. Stultifingly stupid. This bug http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6429775 has been closed. Which is wrong, this bug should really be open, because it ain't fixed. I'm using a non-reparenting WM (XMonad) and since they've been so incredibly unprofessional to hard-code a list of supported WMs into their code - or something like it - and XMonad is (like any other tiling WM) not part of that list, it's no good. Anyways, they're relying on all WMs to be reparenting, which is brain dead. If a WM is not showing up as supported, windows are painted grey. No widgets, no buttons, no way to interact. This has been a known problem for a while. A long while. There exist several workarounds. One of them is to change the toolkit like this: AWT_TOOLKIT=MToolkit java SomeApp.class This is wrong, doesn't always work and has bad side effects. It's not working in my case anyways. There was another workaround which I remember having employed several times successfully already - but I don't remember the details and after a frustrating Google search it seems the instructions are nowhere to be found. It involved sed -i'ing some obscure java-x-lib and removing xinerama extensions and replacing them with something else, like a dummy parameter. But all this relys on accurate information about how to do it and I don't know it. Maybe those are really two unrelated things (one having to do with WM-names, the other with Xinerama extensions being compiled into X libs..) but I think they were at least connected. I have xinerama. I need it. Does any one of you happen to remember how to resolve this frustration of mine? I really need that java app (and I need to use commercial sun-jre for that) and this app really relys on its GUI and I'm really short on time now. I would be really thankful if anyone could point me in the right direction. Thanks, and sorry for bothering you with my questions about commercial packages Aleks PS: I'm using jre 1.6.0_04
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