[DebianGIS-dev] Bug#474626: Bug#474626: #474626: still happens here

[Andreas Putzo]

Hi,

On Aug 04  20:38, Bernd Zeimetz wrote:
> 
> Looking at this I started to wonder if the bug is really in josm, so
> I've tried it with a different window manager and I had to realize that
> it works well in Fluxbox. What I'm using at the moment is xmonad as
> window manager within KDE, so the problem seems to be somewhere within
> java, xmonad and KDE...

i managed to get a visible gui with xmonad but it would still be very
unusable because resizing does not work on the components. 
I found the suspected reason in the manpage of awesome that also suffers
from this bug:

| Java applications which use the XToolkit/XAWT backend may draw grey
| windows only. The XToolkit/XAWT backend breaks ICCCM-compliance in
| recent JDK 1.5 and early JDK 1.6 versions, because it assumes a 
| reparenting window manager. As a workaround you can use JDK 1.4
| (which doesnt contain the XToolkit/XAWT backend) or you can set
| the following environment variable (to use the older Motif backend
| instead): AWT_TOOLKIT=MToolkit

Unfortunately, this works only with SUN's Java and not with
OpenJDK at the moment because openmotif is non-free, see also
this Ubuntu bug #211105 [1]

Cheers,
Andreas


[1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openjdk-6/+bug/211105