[wellylug] Java GUI on Ubuntu

Andrew McClure andrew at fortex.co.nz
Sun Apr 8 14:40:27 NZST 2007


Thanks Daniel

Found the problem -  a case of Pixl depth!

cheers

Andrew

At 05:19 p.m. 6/04/2007, you wrote:
>Andrew McClure <andrew at coastalwatch.co.nz> writes:
>
> > I'm trying to get a simple GUI Java application running on Ubuntu.
> >
> > When running in VNC mode (DISPLAY set to local X server), the
> > application starts to run but hangs after
>
>[...]
>
> > I've tried downloading and reinstalling all of KDE, and changing java
> > to IBM's JVM, but all to no effect,
>
>Changing KDE isn't going to help -- it doesn't have much of anything to
>do with Java.
>
>Two things to consider:
>
>Does this fail when you use another X server than the VNC server?
>
>If so, consider that it could be some incompatibility between the
>requirements of the X extensions the Java implementation is trying to
>use and the VNC server.
>
>I have no suggestions for resolving that but your upstream vendor may;
>file a bug on it.
>
>
>Second, which Java are you using?  The original Sun Java should be
>trouble free while my experiences with GCJ and BlackDown were almost
>uniformly less successful.
>
>If you have more than one installed you probably want to run
>'update-java-alternatives' as root to select the preferred
>implementation.
>
>Regards,
>         Daniel
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