Re: [dwm] Java apps and dwm

Anselm R. Garbe --> dwm (2006-09-22 13:55:46 +0200):
> On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 01:48:20PM +0200, Jukka Salmi wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I just switched a laptop (running NetBSD/i386 -current, XFree86 4.5.0)
> > from Blackbox to dwm. Everything works fine, except both Java programs
> > I have installed: [1]eclipse 3.2.0, using Sun JRE 5.0 for Linux with
> > NetBSD's compat_linux(8), and [2]SQuirrel SQL Client 2.2 final, using
> > either the same JRE as for eclipse or native Sun JRE for NetBSD.
> >
> > While the problem I'm having with SQuirrel was [3]reported before, the
> > one with eclipse is not (AFAIR):
> >
> > After starting eclipse the splash screen doesn't disappear, and CPU
> > usage rises to 100% (one of the many java processes uses about 50%,
> > and XFree86 the other 50%). Eclipse then seems not to respond to mouse
> > and keyboard events anymore and I have to kill it...
> >
> > Both programs work fine on the same system under Blackbox or twm.
> > Furthermore it doesn't matter whether they are started floating or
> > tiled.
>
> I had the same issue when using sun jdk 1.5 under openbsd, but
> could'nt reproduce it with jdk 1.4...
>
> Can you confirm this as well?

The problem I'm having with SQuirrel (showing only a gray window) does
not exist when I use JRE 1.4 (1.4.2.12); it seems to work fine with
this JRE. But the eclipse problem is the same with all JREs I tried.

Is anybody successfully running eclipse under dwm?

Cheers, Jukka

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