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devwurm

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Registered: 2015-09-25

Posts: 12

Java Applications aren't displayed correctly when using i3 (twm)

I'm using Arch with the i3 tiling window manager for some days now, but now I get serious issues when using Java (Swing/AWT) applications:
I have the Oracle JDK 1.8.0u66 installed, but when starting Java Swing applications such as the IntelliJ installer or the Netbeans installer, the windows are displayed incorrect like in the pictures.

Broken IntelliJ
Broken Netbeans

I already tried the fixes provided in the Awesome Wiki Page and in many other forums, but nothing of this works.

Has anybody an idea how to fix this?
Thank you!

Last edited by devwurm (2015-10-24 12:39:39)

Lone_Wolf

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From: Netherlands, Europe

Registered: 2005-10-04

Posts: 15,556

Re: Java Applications aren't displayed correctly when using i3 (twm)

Netbeans and intellij are both in official repos and built/tested against openjdk .
Have you tried running with openjdk8 ?

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devwurm

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Registered: 2015-09-25

Posts: 12

Re: Java Applications aren't displayed correctly when using i3 (twm)

Oh, thank you... I completely missed this possibility m(
But should be possible with Oracle JDK too, shouldn't it?

Mindstormscreator

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Registered: 2012-07-01

Posts: 186

Re: Java Applications aren't displayed correctly when using i3 (twm)

Stick this in your startup scripts:

export _JAVA_AWT_WM_NONREPARENTING=1

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