added the java odyssee to CAVEATS section - dwm - dynamic window manager
HTML git clone https://git.parazyd.org/dwm
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HTML Author: arg@mig29 <unknown>
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 13:42:17 +0100
added the java odyssee to CAVEATS section
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DIR diff --git a/dwm.1 b/dwm.1
@@ -123,8 +123,16 @@ code. This keeps it fast, secure and simple.
.SH CAVEATS
The status bar may display
.BR "broken pipe"
-when dwm has been started by
+when dwm has been started by an X session manager like
.BR xdm (1),
-because it closes standard output before executing dwm.
+because those close standard output before executing dwm.
+.P
+Java applications which use the XToolkit/XAWT backend may draw grey windows
+only. The XToolkit/XAWT backend breaks ICCCM-compliance in recent JDK 1.5 and early
+JDK 1.6 versions, because it assumes a reparenting window manager. As workaround
+wether you use JDK 1.4 (which don't contains the XToolkit/XAWT backend) or you
+define the following environment variable accordingly (to use the older Motif
+backend instead):
+.BR AWT_TOOLKIT=MToolkit .
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR dmenu (1)