Josm is an empty grey window in certain window managers

[anonymous]

When starting josm in the window manager "ratpoison", all you get is a grey window with nothing in it. No buttons, no map, no toolbar, nothing.

I'm running ratpoison 1.4.3-1 in Debian testing. To make it less likely that this is a bug in ratpoison, I tried in wmii 3.6+debian-4 and got the same result.

The problem may be that ratpoison (and probably also wmii) to some degree forces windows to be a specific size, which josm may not like. Using ratpoison's "redisplay" command or resizing the window does not help.

My only known workaround is to launch e.g. evilwm by using ratpoison's tmpwm command, then launching josm, then optionally kill evilwm to get what I want.

[Gabriel Ebner <ge@…>]

This is a java problem. If you're running Sun's Java 1.5, you can try setting the environment variable AWT_TOOLKIT=MToolkit. (You can also try icedtea, which doesn't have this problem.)

[anonymous]

Indeed, that worked. Thanks :)

I used this (debian testing), and josm seems to work alright:
AWT_TOOLKIT=MToolkit /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun-1.6.0.00/bin/java -jar josm-latest.jar

[luca.postregna@…]

I have the same problem in my gentoo-linux box with sun-jdk-1.6.0.12 and amd64 kernel.