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1. Michael Pobega Awesome Window Manager

   Why can't I get Swing apps working in !awesome? Is there some sort of environment variable I need for it? (It works in GNOME)

   Wednesday, 15-Apr-09 02:28:28 UTC from Twitux
   • Michael Gratton

     @pobega swing/awt apps need all sorts of wm quirks support to show up on a modern desktop these days. maybe you need a more boring wm?

     Wednesday, 15-Apr-09 02:33:51 UTC
   • Michael Pobega Michael Gratton

     @mjog: So, is there any trick to writing Swing apps outside of a major de/wm? I need to write it for class but the windows show up blank.

     Wednesday, 15-Apr-09 02:35:06 UTC
   • Michael Gratton

     @pobega I believe the problem lies in the awt's handling of wm hints, etc, so there's not much you can do —except contribute fixes to java 7

     Wednesday, 15-Apr-09 02:37:10 UTC
   • Adam Michael Gratton

     @mjog ahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

     Wednesday, 15-Apr-09 02:37:27 UTC
   • Robin Sheat

     @pobega Sounds like the compositing bug. Fixed in Java6, one of the later revisions. There's also an env var that'll fix it I think.

     Wednesday, 15-Apr-09 02:57:31 UTC
   • Michael Pobega Robin Sheat

     @eythian: Any idea *what* that env var is?

     Wednesday, 15-Apr-09 04:37:05 UTC
   • Robin Sheat

     @pobega http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6429775 claims 'AWT_TOOLKIT=MToolkit'

     Wednesday, 15-Apr-09 04:40:27 UTC
   • Michael Pobega Robin Sheat

     @eythian: Wow, you are my new hero. Thank you.

     Wednesday, 15-Apr-09 05:20:11 UTC
   • Robin Sheat

     @pobega any time :)

     Wednesday, 15-Apr-09 05:34:16 UTC
   • Jérôme M. Awesome Window Manager

     @pobega Yep, I had this problem. Install wmname then launch for example : wmname LG3D netbeans !awesome

     Monday, 20-Apr-09 12:02:55 UTC
   • Michael Pobega Jérôme M.

     @rydgel: What problem are you talking about?

     Monday, 20-Apr-09 14:13:50 UTC
   • Michael Pobega Jérôme M.

     @rydgel: I nevermind, the swing problem. Yeah, I figured it out, I needed to set an environment variable and everything just worked.

     Monday, 20-Apr-09 14:16:44 UTC
   • Jérôme M.

     @pobega ok ;)

     Tuesday, 21-Apr-09 09:46:56 UTC
   • Michael Pobega Jérôme M.

     @rydgel: Fyi, it was `export AWT_TOOLKIT=MToolkit`

     Tuesday, 21-Apr-09 17:23:47 UTC