Java – Troubleshooting Remote Display Issues on Windows and Linux

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I'm trying to remote display Java based development environments, such as NetBeans and IntelliJ, from a linux machine to a windows machine. When I do this, the right click functionality of the environments does not work, which makes them unusable.

I use the -X option with Putty to tunnel X through SSH. I've repeated this using Ubuntu and RedHat to my Windows running Xming. Is there a trick to remote Xing java applications that I'm missing?

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From this post on the java.net forums it seems that there are "incorrect insets detection when using the Xming". The fix is to set the AWT_TOOLKIT environment variable. Explanation for why can be found on Sun's page here.

AWT_TOOLKIT=MToolkit

Setting this environment variable fixed all problems. Update: The link containing the original link has changed. See here.

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