Re: [dev] Bug (feature) in Swing applications (Netbeans)

When I'm using Java software that fails in dwm, I run the wmname tool.

For details: http://tools.suckless.org/wmname

--Andrew Hills

On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 9:40 AM, Catalin David
<catalindavid2003_AT_gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> Thanks for the great work that you are doing with DWM. Been using it
> and reading your rants for the past 2 years, but I have stumbled
> across a bug today and I am not sure what is to be done.
>
> First of all, thanks in advance for the bashing of Java and Swing and
> how they are not working on Linux. I am using DWM 5.8.2 and the
> problem comes with Netbeans and has been reported on other WM-s too
> (sun-java6). Everything lives on top of a customized Ubuntu Natty
> distribution. I have a dual-head setup, powered by an ATI HD5650 video
> card.
>
> Steps to reproduce the issue:
>
> 1. open Netbeans (or other Swing app) in one tag. Make sure the editor has focus
> 2. navigate to another tag (either via kb or click on the tag)
> 3. navigate back to Netbeans tag
> 4. editor does not have focus any more.
>
> Related documentation -- apparently this is a known bug in other WMs
> too and Oracle people just say that the besides GNOME and KDE, they do
> not support anything else.
>
> Issue in ion3 ML:
> http://www.mail-archive.com/ion-general@lists.berlios.de/msg03073.html
> Issue in XMonad: http://code.google.com/p/xmonad/issues/detail?id=177
> Official Sun / Oracle bug report: http://bugs.sun.com/view_bug.do?bug_id=6798064
>
> Maybe some of you can make more sense about this than me, since I am
> very inexperienced with X programming in C. Maybe it's a known issue,
> but I was not able to find any reference in DWM on the interwebs.
>
> Thanks a lot in advance,
>
> Catalin
>
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