Re: Java (aka icedtea) plugin for iceweasel, settings
On 2015-11-25, Ian Zimmerman <itz@buug.org> wrote:
> I can pass options to java programs by setting the environment variable
> JAVA_ARGS. This works by ultimately passing the contents of the
> variable on the command line to the java runtime binary, such as
> /usr/bin/java; well behaved packages do this themselves by using the
> shell functions in java-wrappers.
>
> This is all great, but what about the java web applets, run by the
> browser plugin (in my case, the icedtea-6-plugin for iceweasel)? As far
> as I know this doesn't use the runtime binary, and even if it did it
> wouldn't know to apply the extra options from JAVA_ARGS. So can I
> control the java runtime options for applets in any way? Googling for
> the relevant terms tends to bring up something called Java Control
> Panel, with instructions where to find such a thing on Windoze and Mac.
> But nothing about Debian, and indeed a search on packages.debian.org for
> a package file "ControlPanel" shows nothing promising.
>
> Right now my JAVA_ARGS is as follows but I expect it to grow.
>
> JAVA_ARGS="-Dawt.useSystemAAFontSettings=on -Dswing.aatext=true"
The equivalent of ControlPanel in Debian is the binary itweb-settings,
which is provided by the package icedtea-netx (I know --- not exactly
intuitive). If you click on 'JVM Settings' you can set the arguments
there.
By the way, does Java 6 still receive security support? I thought it
had been discontinued.
--
Liam
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