Changes between Version 41 and Version 42 of InstallNotes


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2010-03-04T11:48:57+01:00 (16 years ago)
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fil
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point to Awesome Wiki for workarounds for AWT non-reparenting bug

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    5050 '''Blank window on startup'''::
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    52 In non-reparenting window managers (i.e. xmonad, awesome) you are likely to stumble across [http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.xmonad/1790 this old bug] that's still in Java's AWT code.  The above mentioned AWT_TOOLKIT=MToolkit trick works around this bug if you're using Sun's (non-free) Java 1.5, but otherwise you'll want to fool java into thinking that your window manager is LG3D, for which they've implemented some sort of fix.
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    54 For '''xmonad''', you can get it to lie for you [http://xmonad.org/xmonad-docs/xmonad-contrib/XMonad-Hooks-SetWMName.html thus], as shown [http://github.com/htr/dotfiles/blob/352231b953126cafc234346b9e9a4fe88d500565/xmonad/xmonad.hs here].
     52AWT before JDK7 [http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6574362 doesn't play well] with non-reparenting window managers (i.e. xmonad, awesome, dwm, ratpoison, Ion3, ...), resulting in the main window not being displayed properly on startup.  The Awesome Wiki has [http://awesome.naquadah.org/wiki/Problems_with_Java workarounds] for this problem.  There is also an [http://xmonad.org/xmonad-docs/xmonad-contrib/XMonad-Hooks-SetWMName.html xmonad specific] way of doing the wmname thing.
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    5654=== MacOS ===