java apps troubles with composite manager

[Owen Taylor]

On Tue, 2006-11-21 at 17:35 +0000, Torgeir Veimo wrote:
> When running with a composite manager, java applications start up with a
> white screen. If the java app is started before the composite manager,
> then it runs as normal even after the composite manager is started.
> 
> Also, with a composite manager, mouse input events seems to be shifted
> horizontally to the right when using popup windows. I assume Java is
> trying to be too smart about window positions.
> 
> Obviously these are bugs that Sun needs to address, but I was wondering
> if anyone know of a workaround. I tried the obvious 
> 
> export XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=1 
> 
> and other stuff mentioned here:
> http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Xorg_X11_and_Transparency#Troubleshooting
> with no results. 
> 
> I thought about turning off double buffering in java, but am not sure
> how to do that system wide using properties. This is with jdk1.6.0rc
> released today.

The blank window problem is, I think:

http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6429775

					- Owen