[openbox] Java and openbox

Brian Mattern rephorm at rephorm.com
Fri Mar 18 00:23:23 EDT 2011


Git commit 79cf72d17ff42e5bc8eb1adbd98bb42aa71fb085 seems to have broken
compatibility with java swing apps. From this point forward in git, they
are all started on desktop 0.

My quick guess at what is going on is (without much familiarity with
openbox's codebase, so this could be wrong):

Java apps get "fake" managed first, at which point a configure event
sets _NET_WM_DESKTOP to 0, then when they are managed for real, openbox
thinks that they are requesting to be placed on desktop 0.

Anyway, I'm not sure that this isn't Java's fault, BUT it does seem to
be a regression on the part of openbox since it worked prior to that
commit.

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Brian Mattern


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