(From Debian Bug) "It is an long standing bug that java programs come with empty gray windows when run in non-reparenting window managers." I encounter this when trying to use Clojure with sun-jdk-1.6.0.21 on Gentoo ~amd64. Any code that starts a swing window usually results in a grey blank window, no rendered content. Per the links below, I install a utility wmname and trick sun-jdk into thinking that I'm using a hardcoded recognized wmname LG3D, which fixed the problem completely. The patch from arch linux would seem to be applicable for Gentoo, and if applied would greatly improve the Java environment for users of non-reparenting window managers such as x11-wm/awesome. http://awesome.naquadah.org/wiki/Problems_with_Java#Use_OpenJDK_With_Vendor_Fix FS#15674 - [openjdk6] Include patch for non-reparenting WMs in openjdk builds for repos https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/15674 java programs with empty gray windows http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=508650 Reproducible: Always
Changing summary to icedtea, there's no way we can patch sun-jdk. However, upstream patch inclusion (icedtea, if not openjdk) would be better than distro-specific patching. Have the other distros tried that?
*** Bug 388405 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
The sun bug database claims this to be fixed in recent 1.6 and 1.7. Is this still an issue with >=icedtea-6.1.11.1? If so which WM and icedtea version exactly. At least one of the WMs claimed to be broken always worked for me.
*** Bug 427992 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Still exist for awesome and dev-java/icedtea-bin-7.2.2.1
Marking this bug as FIXED.
