Re: [dwm] Java patch

On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 12:56 PM, Tuncer Ayaz <tuncer.ayaz_AT_gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 11:27 AM, Anselm R. Garbe <arg_AT_suckless.org> wrote:
> >
> > 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)?
>
> assuming that's possible, +1.

I still prefer using a fixed OpenJDK-6 build, btw.
Received on Tue Apr 29 2008 - 12:57:36 UTC