Bug#532206: scilab gui does not work

[Sylvestre Ledru]

Le mercredi 10 juin 2009 à 21:42 +0200, Oswald Berthold a écrit :
> Sylvestre Ledru <sylvestre.ledru at scilab.org> writes:
> 
> >> starting scilab brings up a "console" window, which stays empty and nothing happening, no error.
> > it is pretty weird.
> >
> >> machine:~# strace -p 16901
> >> Process 16901 attached - interrupt to quit
> >> futex(0xb807c8a4, FUTEX_WAIT_PRIVATE, 1, NULL
> >> 
> >> but i couldn't figure out what it's waiting for.
> > What is the version of the JVM you have ?
> >
> > $ dpkg -l|grep jre
> 
> ok, hope this goes into the log now.
> 
> the blank window is due to the windowmanager. awesome, xmonad, dwm all
> seem to have this problem. the window's content doesn't get drawn
> properly. the scicos shell is actually active, so typing in the blank
> window you can execute commands, you just don't see your typing, the
> output or anything else.
> 
> with other wm's i tested it works as expected.
OK, thanks for the feedback.

I wonder if it is a bug of a lib used by awesome/dwm or in the
SWING/Java API.

Sylvestre