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Fluxbox Locks Up Displaying Java Dialogs #85

Open sillysloft opened 22 years ago

sillysloft commented 22 years ago

The latest CVS version of FluxBox locks up when a Java application tries to display a dialog. The dialog is not shown and the window manager has to be killed.

This happens with the application we are developing and with SmartCVS (www.smartcvs.com). It did not happen with the CVS build from a couple of days ago.

I am using Mandrake 8.2 and Sun's Java 1.4 Virtual Machine.

This is a show-stopper for me and I've had to stop using FluxBox for now.

Reported by: nobody

sillysloft commented 22 years ago

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This is now fixed after updating with the changes added today.

Thanks.

Original comment by: *anonymous

sillysloft commented 22 years ago

Original comment by: *anonymous

sillysloft commented 21 years ago

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I think know why this is. The dialog box is displaying as a tiny sliver one pixel wide and one pixel tall, plus the title-bar. So it looks like a short vertical line.

Since the dialog box is modal, it locks up the java program behind it.

Since the dialog box is non-resizable, you can't stretch it out in order to click the "OK." This effectively locks up your java program.

This is only a problem with Fluxbox and Blackbox. Java apps even display properly on simple WMs like TWM and WM2.

It was once a problem with KDE; but somehow the KDE folks fixed it: http://developer.java.sun.com/servlet/SessionServlet?url=/developer/bugParade/bugs/4379472.html

I wish there were at least a workaround.

Original comment by: neshort