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changeset 632:3afe7c74ceb9

added the java odyssee to CAVEATS section
author arg@mig29
date Wed, 13 Dec 2006 13:42:17 +0100
parents d6fbb669fef2
children 7209e355762c
files dwm.1
diffstat 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) [+]
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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)