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diff dwm.1 @ 632:3afe7c74ceb9
added the java odyssee to CAVEATS section
author | arg@mig29 |
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date | Wed, 13 Dec 2006 13:42:17 +0100 |
parents | 0811e4114faa |
children | 7209e355762c |
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1.1 --- a/dwm.1 Tue Dec 12 19:14:38 2006 +0100 1.2 +++ b/dwm.1 Wed Dec 13 13:42:17 2006 +0100 1.3 @@ -123,8 +123,16 @@ 1.4 .SH CAVEATS 1.5 The status bar may display 1.6 .BR "broken pipe" 1.7 -when dwm has been started by 1.8 +when dwm has been started by an X session manager like 1.9 .BR xdm (1), 1.10 -because it closes standard output before executing dwm. 1.11 +because those close standard output before executing dwm. 1.12 +.P 1.13 +Java applications which use the XToolkit/XAWT backend may draw grey windows 1.14 +only. The XToolkit/XAWT backend breaks ICCCM-compliance in recent JDK 1.5 and early 1.15 +JDK 1.6 versions, because it assumes a reparenting window manager. As workaround 1.16 +wether you use JDK 1.4 (which don't contains the XToolkit/XAWT backend) or you 1.17 +define the following environment variable accordingly (to use the older Motif 1.18 +backend instead): 1.19 +.BR AWT_TOOLKIT=MToolkit . 1.20 .SH SEE ALSO 1.21 .BR dmenu (1)