Fooling with Java

[Asheesh Laroia]

On Sat, 22 Dec 2007, Bert Freudenberg wrote:

> 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.

It might be worth trying your app in Matchbox on your normal (i.e., 
non-XO) computer, too.

-- Asheesh.

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