Java applications with Awesome WM

Some java application do not get focus or have strange behaviours under no standard Window Managers like Awesome.


Impersonate Another Window Manager

You may use the wmname utility to make the JVM believe you are running a different window manager. This utility is available in the suckless-tools package in Debian (and Ubuntu); this Portage tree provides wmname for Funtoo (and Gentoo).

$ wmname LG3D

This works, because the JVM contains a hard-coded list of knownnon-re-parenting window managers. For maximum irony, many users preferto impersonate “LG3D,” the non-re-parenting window manager written by Sun, in Java.

转自：http://awesome.naquadah.org/wiki/Problems_with_Java