#4151 jEdit stoppen working after OS update (garbled screen)

[Ronald]

After updating to MacOS 26.5.2, jEdit does not work anymore. It starts, but it is imposssible to edit any file. I have uploaded a Screen Recording, where I start jEdit and try to open a file : https://limewire.com/d/g8zgl#0iuMlpN1oF

As you can see, the screen looks completely garbled. I must add that I haven't used it for a while, so I don't know whether the most recent OS update broke it or something else. FYI, I have the following Java versions installed:

In /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/temurin-8.jdk/Contents/Home/bin/java is 1.8.0_482
In /usr/bin/java is 25.0.2

I don't know which one jEdit decides, which one to pick.

Let me know if I need to supply additional debugging information.

[Ronald]

Additional information:

I can open Plugins/ErrorList, but the error list is empty.

When I do a Plugins/Plugins/Console, nothing opens.

[Alan Ezust]

I recommend reinstalling jEdit. The install process should find the newer Java.

[Ronald]

Reinstalling did not help. I now have jEdit 5.7.0. The only differencce is that I now get a completely empty edit window (i.e. no content), no matter which file I am opening. I think that jEdit (or at least the content of the DMG-file) is broken on Tahoe.

Interestingly, Plugins/ErrorList is empty, and Plugins/Console does not open a console window.

Can I do anything do help debugging the problem?

[Matthew Orzewalla]

If it helps at all, I had issues with Java versions newer than version 11 on macOS (see https://sourceforge.net/p/jedit/bugs/4135/ ). I am currently on macOS 26.6.2, jEdit 5.7.0 running the following version of Java: java --version openjdk 11.0.23 2024-04-16 LTS OpenJDK Runtime Environment Corretto-11.0.23.9.1 (build 11.0.23+9-LTS) OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM Corretto-11.0.23.9.1 (build 11.0.23+9-LTS, mixed mode) This is the Amazon Corretto 11 version of Java, which I believe I am using because it is the version Mathworks recommends for Matlab (or did at the time I was configuring jEdit and Matlab).

[Ronald]

I tried to start jEdit using a different Java version. set_java_home -V shows me the versions 25.0.2 (arm64) "Eclipse Adoptium", 17.0.18 (arm64) "Eclipse Adoptium" and 1.8.0_482 (x86_64) "Eclipse Temurin", so I set it to 25.0.2 and did a java -jar /Applications/jEdit.app/Contents/Java/jedit.jar, but same effect.