When I'm using Java software that fails in dwm, I run the wmname tool. For details: http://tools.suckless.org/wmname
--Andrew Hills On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 9:40 AM, Catalin David <catalindavid2...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear all, > > Thanks for the great work that you are doing with DWM. Been using it > and reading your rants for the past 2 years, but I have stumbled > across a bug today and I am not sure what is to be done. > > First of all, thanks in advance for the bashing of Java and Swing and > how they are not working on Linux. I am using DWM 5.8.2 and the > problem comes with Netbeans and has been reported on other WM-s too > (sun-java6). Everything lives on top of a customized Ubuntu Natty > distribution. I have a dual-head setup, powered by an ATI HD5650 video > card. > > Steps to reproduce the issue: > > 1. open Netbeans (or other Swing app) in one tag. Make sure the editor has > focus > 2. navigate to another tag (either via kb or click on the tag) > 3. navigate back to Netbeans tag > 4. editor does not have focus any more. > > Related documentation -- apparently this is a known bug in other WMs > too and Oracle people just say that the besides GNOME and KDE, they do > not support anything else. > > Issue in ion3 ML: > http://www.mail-archive.com/ion-general@lists.berlios.de/msg03073.html > Issue in XMonad: http://code.google.com/p/xmonad/issues/detail?id=177 > Official Sun / Oracle bug report: > http://bugs.sun.com/view_bug.do?bug_id=6798064 > > Maybe some of you can make more sense about this than me, since I am > very inexperienced with X programming in C. Maybe it's a known issue, > but I was not able to find any reference in DWM on the interwebs. > > Thanks a lot in advance, > > Catalin > > -- > ****************************** > Catalin David > M.Sc. Smart Systems 2012 > B.Sc. Computer Science 2010 > Jacobs University Bremen > > Phone: +49-(0)1577-49-38-667 > > Hans-Hermann-Sieling-Strasse 2A > Bremen, 28759 > Germany > ****************************** > >
