Netbeans (java) shows empty window in tiling window manager (awesome wm)

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I use the "awesome" (tiling) window manager (with default config) and want to run netbeans (java app).

But the window is completely grey. The installer window was it too, so i installed under KDE.

I guess it has to do how java talks to the deskop or WM but found it hard to find the right keywords to search for this issue

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The JVM contains a hard-coded list of non re-parenting window managers such as Awesome. You can fix this by using the wmname utility provided by suckless.org in the package suckless-tools to set the window manager name property of the root window:

sudo apt-get install suckless-tools

then

wmname LG3D

wmname compiz

Then restart or launch your Java application.

I've confirmed this to be working on JDK 1.7u3 with Netbeans 7.1 on Ubuntu 11.10/Awesome.

For additional details, check out Awesome's wiki on the issue.

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Windows – Using XFCE4 with awesome

I might not be the right person to answer this, since I prefer Openbox partly because it doesn't set up panels and whatnot, but the section on xfce here seems like it might help you out.

The idea is that you configure your awesome session through that text file, and then link it to your "Xsession"

ln -s ~/.xinitrc ~/.Xsession

and then "select Xsession in your Session list at the login interface"

This is attacking it at a lower level than Ubuntu normally does, so there is possibly a more integrated way to do this. I'm also not totally sure what those commands will do, eg if they will actually cause the xfce panel to be displayed, but it seems worth a go at least.

Control awesome window manager from console

Getting the current tag:

echo 'local awful = require("awful") ; return awful.tag.selected(2).name' | awesome-client

Switching to tag 1:

echo 'local awful = require("awful") ; return awful.tag.viewonly(tags[2][1])' | awesome-client

In both cases it handles screen number 2

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Windows – Using XFCE4 with awesome

Control awesome window manager from console

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