Poor graphic performance on java apps

[Enrico Weigelt]

* Carsten Haitzler <raster at rasterman.com> schrieb:

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> dealing with x. it was hackery to the nth degree. they have so many nasty kinds
> of hacks to try detect what wm u run - and in the case of a detected one,
> literally behave differently when mapping/opening windows, handling their
> events etc. it shows very little respect for icccm and window management and
> they did only SPECIFIC case hacks. their general case assumptions are very poor
> at best. if your wm is a new one and not detected yet (which is actually most
> wm's as they only detect about half a dozen) you either have to try pretend to
> be another wm, or live with broken java apps they do thigns like don't draw,
> make their windows 4 times they size they should be etc. java's awt liked to do
> things like ASSUME it can figure out the top-left cornder of the FRAME window
> all the time. it likes to ASSUME single re-parenting on a wm's part if it isn't
> 100% correctly detected, and more.

hey cool, that's just as many fun as with autotools ;-P


BTW: i guess you're talking about Sun's java implementation, not other's
like gnu classpath, etc.

I'm coding much in java, but very few gui stuff. the gnu awt 
implementation always worked for me.


cu
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