Java Swing applications are not drawn completely

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Start for example http://symbolaris.com/info/KeYmaera.jnlp using java
webstart. 

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
The expected initial output is a popup window with an ok button on the
bottom. Sometimes you get a gray bar down there that covers around 10
pixels of the window. For some of my applications its almost half of the
window that is covered and you cannot get rid of it using resizing of the
windows.

What version of the product are you using (wmii -v)? On what operating system?
wmii-hg2432, gentoo linux amd64,
java version "1.6.0_12"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_12-b04)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 11.2-b01, mixed mode)

javaws 32-bit 1.6.0_12

Please provide any additional information below.
I have attached a screenshot...

Original issue reported on code.google.com by que...@gmail.com on 30 Mar 2009 at 6:37

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Wasnt this already reported?
http://code.google.com/p/wmii/issues/detail?id=5&can=1&q=swing
or is that one different?

Original comment by adkilgore on 30 Mar 2009 at 7:03

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No I think it is releated to that one, but I did only search in "Open Issues" 
for
swing or java and didnt find a matching bug. I thought the other one was 
reported in
a different bugtracker. I dont consider using open jdk a solution, neither 
forcing a
special style for java applications. It works with other window managers 
(although
you sometimes have to use the wmname "LG3D" hack), so this is should be 
something
that has to fixed in wmii...

Original comment by que...@gmail.com on 30 Mar 2009 at 7:34

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It is the same bug. Just because it works in other window managers, it doesn't 
mean
that the fault lies with wmii. There are no less than 14 ways to do any single 
thing
in X11, and apps that assume certain unspecified behaviors are often burned. For
instance, many windows assume that they'll be opened with their requested size, 
and
draw their contents to that size until they're resized by the user (which turns 
out
usually to be a race condition).

As for Java's problem, I have no idea of the cause, but wmii has no say in how
windows draw their contents; it doesn't even give them any hints on the matter. 
And,
unfortunately, Java code tends to be painfully verbose, complex, and 
bureaucratic,
which means that I, personally, don't have the time to dig through its 
thousands of
lines of code to find some hint of the cause.

The "solution" doesn't force a special style on the app, just a special 
rendering
toolkit. The appearance is the same. OpenJDK is the same as Sun's JDK, sans some
proprietary components. Most distros should be using it by default in the near
future. I do think this should be fixed, but given that I have no clues as to 
the
cause, and suspect that it's a Java issue, I can't see it being resolved any 
time soon.

Original comment by maglion...@gmail.com on 30 Mar 2009 at 7:50

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Original comment by sun...@gmail.com on 23 Apr 2009 at 5:53

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