Fooling with Java

[Bert Freudenberg]

On Dec 22, 2007, at 2:04 , Jeffrey Kesselman wrote:

> Okay,
>
> I have a JDK installed and it seems to work.  For grins i put netbeans
>  on my USB stick and fired it up.
>
> It seems to be working however I get no main display. I do get pop up
> dialogs though.
>
> My suspicion is that Netbeans is asking the X wm for a Window and,
> sicne from what I cna see the "window manager" in the OLPC is
> windowless (one fullscreen root window only) it ends u pwitha null
> window and all the drawing goes down the bit bucket.
>
> Has anyone else played with this?  If so does anyone know any magic to
> get it to use the root "window" for the app frame?

Our window manager is "Matchbox", it is not "window-less" but "full- 
screen", that is, it resizes each top-level window to cover the whole  
screen. In theory this should work fine with all well-behaved X11  
apps, and in practice it seems to work for most. Can't help with Java  
specifically.

- Bert -