Great, that's it. As soon as I switch away from Beryl window-manager
and
onto KWin (KDE) window manager, SQuirreL works just fine.
[I'll upgrade my Java run-time soon, and re-test.]
Many thanks, and regards...
Dave
On Mon, 2007-03-26 at 21:51 -0400, Robert Manning wrote:
> It sounds very similar to an issue which we saw with the JDK where
> users who ran any java applications would see what you've described.
> The particular troublesome combination was Linux with Sun 1.5/1.6 and
> the use of the desktop effects (Compiz). Others saw this problem when
> desktop effects were used in conjunction with nvidia cards and the
> nvidia display driver, again on Linux. I remember hearing that Sun
> put out an update to the JDK (a new 1.6 release I believe) that was
> supposed to address the issue but that some nvidia users were still
> seeing issues. The problem had to do with how the AWT Frame handled
> events with it's native peer on this platform. You may want to try
> disabling desktop effects if they are turned on. At least one user
> reported that as a work-around.
>
> Rob
>
> On 3/26/07, David Cook <dav...@ve...> wrote:
> >
> > Hi -
> >
> > I had SQuirreL v2.2 installed on my Linux box, but when I launched it
> > (under KDE),
> > it draws the window w/ title-bar, but nothing ever shows up in the
> > client-area
> > of the window (i.e. it remains white).
> >
> > Since it was a bit out-of-date, I grabbed your new v2.4.1 install-jar, and
> > installed that.
> > (I do just the single-user install, which puts it into my /home/<user>
> > sub-tree.)
> >
> > I'm still seeing the exact same symptom (i.e. nothing shows up in window
> > client-area).
> >
> > I checked the obvious:
> >
> > java -version
> > java version "1.5.0_08"
> > Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.5.0_08-b03)
> > Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.5.0_08-b03, mixed mode, sharing)
> > root@2[SQuirreL SQL Client]#
> >
> > and another unrelated -jar file executes just fine.
> >
> > [The original v2.2 worked a month or so ago...since then, I've
> > upgrade the Linux system (leaving my '/home' partition intact).
> > That usually works...SQuirreL typically runs just fine once I install
> > a newer Linux distro and JRE, etc.]
> >
> > Any ideas on what to look at? [I'm sure its gonna be something simple
> > that I'm overlooking.
> >
> > TIA...
> >
> > Dave
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