Bug#855324: pdfsam fails to start

[Philip Rinn]

On 04.03.2017 at 01:13, gregor herrmann wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Feb 2017 18:31:12 +0100, Philip Rinn wrote:
> 
>>>> If you're willing to try with another window
>>>> manager, that might tell us something.  
>>> Hm, I only have awesome installed
>> Oh, I use Gnome3 - might be the difference?
> 
> Found it: I had _JAVA_AWT_WM_NONREPARENTING=1 set in my ~/.Xsession
> which was at some point needed for running java apps under awesome.
> 
> With _JAVA_AWT_WM_NONREPARENTING=0 pdfsam shows me something useful
> (and also freeplane, where I had the same issue, and raccoon (not in
> Debian), where I also only got an empty window).
> 
> Sorry for the confusion!

Great, so changing the value in the <LAF> element ~/.pdfsam/config.xml to '0':

...
  <settings>
    <lookAndfeel>
      <LAF>0</LAF>
           ^
           |
...

fixes the crash.
With this fix I'd keep pdfsam in stable, although it's outdated.

Best,
Philip

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