[Pkg-electronics-devel] Bug#1141191: Bug#1141191: arduino: User interface does not adjust to window size changes

[Matthias Geiger]

On Tue, 29 Sep 2026 21:12, Gunnar Wolf <gwolf at debian.org> wrote:
>I found that following the notes presented in
>/usr/share/doc/arduino/README.Debian for non-reparenting window manager
>users (i.e. “export _JAVA_AWT_WM_NONREPARENTING=true”) make the behavior I
>mentioned disappear.
>
Hi,

yes, that ENV variable is expected to be set when running any JAVA 
application under sway. AFAIK recent JDKs have native wayland support, 
but I am not sure how far.
>I would just ask, then, to make it a bit cleearer in the README: it
>mentions that non-reparenting window manages “will only display empty gray
>windows”; it does not match my experience (I got a non-resizing small text
>window instead of using the full available space). But I think that just
>adding this note would be enough to considering this bug dealt with.
>

This is rather a wayland issue than a arduino-ide specific issue, 
nevertheless we can improve that.

best,

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Matthias Geiger <werdahias>

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