[compiz] Java and compiz

[David Reveman]

On Wed, 2006-06-07 at 12:22 -0400, Dan Winship wrote:
> Kalle Kärkkäinen wrote:
> >     There was nothing of this in the archives, so whats the plan? 
> > Anybody working on this already? Has there been some research on the 
> > matter? Do you already secretly know where the fault is?
> 
> Yes, the problem is that some of the java toolkit code assumes that all
> windowmanagers reparent windows, and so if a wm is running, then the
> toolkit waits for new windows to be reparented before it starts handling
> certain events on them. Since compiz doesn't reparent windows, it ends
> up waiting forever.
> 
> Sun already has a fix for the bug, but I don't know when it will ship.
> 
> For SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10, we're using the attached patch to
> xgl to work around the problem. (It fakes out the test java uses to see
> if a wm is running.) The patch could potentially cause problems with
> other apps, though we aren't aware of any. You'll also want the latest
> CVS compiz to fix some problems with window placement and other things
> with java windows.

You'll need the attached patch for compiz as well.

-David
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