added the java odyssee to CAVEATS section c8f96b5b
arg@mig29 · 2006-12-13 13:42 1 file(s) · +10 −2
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.SH CAVEATS
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The status bar may display
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.BR "broken pipe"
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when dwm has been started by
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when dwm has been started by an X session manager like
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.BR xdm (1),
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because it closes standard output before executing dwm.
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because those close standard output before executing dwm.
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.P
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Java applications which use the XToolkit/XAWT backend may draw grey windows
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only. The XToolkit/XAWT backend breaks ICCCM-compliance in recent JDK 1.5 and early
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JDK 1.6 versions, because it assumes a reparenting window manager. As workaround
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wether you use JDK 1.4 (which don't contains the XToolkit/XAWT backend) or you
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define the following environment variable accordingly (to use the older Motif
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backend instead):
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.BR AWT_TOOLKIT=MToolkit .
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.SH SEE ALSO
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.BR dmenu (1)