Re: [dwm] java 7 and dwm

From: Richard Pöttler <richard.poettler_AT_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 12:07:51 +0100

On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 11:58:17AM +0100, Anselm R. Garbe wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 04:41:04PM +0900, Renick Bell wrote:
> > > On Thu, Dec 27, 2007 at 03:28:39PM +0100, Anthony Brown wrote:
> > > > FYI: I just downloaded and early binary release of JDK 7 and it looks
> > > > like the new Java version behaves properly with dwm (using 'standard'
> > > > dwm-4.7). I tried using some Gui apps that gave me the infamous grey
> > > > windows with Java6 (or Java5 without setting AWT_TOOLKIT=MToolkit) and
> > > > so far no problems occured.
> >
> > With this Java and dwm-4.7, I'm still getting the gray windows.
> >
> > java -version
> > java version "1.7.0"
> > IcedTea Runtime Environment (build 1.7.0-b21)
> > IcedTea Client VM (build 1.7.0-b21, mixed mode, sharing)
> >
> > Any suggestions?
>
> Is IcedTea based on the Sun source code?

According to [1], yes (at least most of the parts, it seems):

The IcedTea project provides a harness to build the source code from
http://openjdk.java.net using Free Software build tools and provides
replacements for the binary plugs with code from the GNU Classpath project.

bye
richi

[1] http://icedtea.classpath.org/wiki/Main_Page

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