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hooya

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Registered: 2011-10-09

Posts: 99

Java applets aren't always working properly in browsers (mouse click)

I have openjdk6 and icedtea-web packages installed. Java applets just showing up as a grey box though. No idea why. Some ask for security permissions to run (http://www.minecraft.net/classic/play) but they still don't do anything.

What might I be missing? I've tried both Firefox and Chromium (my usual browser) with the same results.

Post #2 solved this problem.

I now have applets working, but they don't seem to capture my mouse properly.

Again, using the minecraft example above. Whenever I click the applet acts as if I hit escape. It doesn't provide the game function of the click, but acts as if I hit escape and clicked on a button in the middle of the menu. This happens in Chromium, Firefox, and under LXDE as well as Gnome, so I know it's not an environmental issue, but probably a Java specific one. It doesn't seem to capture the mouse clicks properly.

Any ideas?

Last edited by hooya (2011-11-06 21:37:43)

oboedad55

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From: Baku

Registered: 2011-04-05

Posts: 392

Re: Java applets aren't always working properly in browsers (mouse click)

I have to use jre6 from the AUR to get that stuff to work. It will install the plugin as well.

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hooya

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Registered: 2011-10-09

Posts: 99

Re: Java applets aren't always working properly in browsers (mouse click)

Well, that worked for me. Mostly. Now I have a different problem. Will edit the OP with that and the title to reflect.