Re: [dwm] Java patch

From: Anselm R. Garbe <arg_AT_suckless.org>
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 11:27:34 +0200

On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 01:43:14PM -0700, Don Stewart wrote:
> luizribeiro:
> > On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 4:59 PM, Jukka Salmi <j+dwm_AT_2008.salmi.ch> wrote:
> > > It doesn't work for me. Just tested with jdk 1.5.0 and netbeans...
> >
> > I think the LG3D Java compatibility came with jdk 1.6. Remember that
> > the hack sets the NET_WM_NAME to LG3D.
> > Maybe setting it to a different name could work with jdk 1.5. But I'm
> > not sure about that, or what window manager name you should use.
>
> This patch has been in xmonad for a while, there's some more
> documentation here,
>
> http://xmonad.org/xmonad-docs/xmonad-contrib/XMonad-Hooks-SetWMName.html
>
> Several users have reported this as useful.
>

So why not converting this patch into a standalone setwmname
application written in C, then we can delete the patches in dwm
and XMonad and people just run setwmname FooBarBaz to work
around the XToolkit bug(s)?

Kind regards,

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Received on Tue Apr 29 2008 - 11:27:34 UTC

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