Hi Marie-Josée, Gnome is a desktop manager. Compiz is a window manager. The two things work together to bring you a usable interface. Usually the default window manager used with Gnome is Metacity but in Ubuntu 7.10 they changed it to Compiz by default. Can you go into System->Preferences->Appearance and look under the Visual Effects tab? Does it show any effects enabled? If it does you might try turning off the effects, unsetting the AWT_TOOLKIT environment variable, and then trying to use Apollo again.
Josh Marie-Josee Cros wrote: > Hi, > I am using GNOME 2.20.1. > The problems (the ones I noticed) was: > - when asking to maximize the window, the extra place was ligth gray, > - when opening a new window in the application it was empty with the > background color requested (I think one a the window was light yellow). > > The explanation I found was that running Apollo with SUN java it was > necessary to use MToolkit. > > Extract from > http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/guide/awt/1.5/xawt.html : > > Starting with release J2SE^TM 5.0, AWT has been re-implemented on > the Solaris and Linux platforms. The new Toolkit implementation > provides the following advantages: > > * Removes the dependency on Motif and Xt libraries. > * Interoperates better with other GUI Toolkits. > * Provides better performance and quality. > > The new Toolkit (XToolkit) is the default on Linux in J2SE 5.0. > Solaris will continue to use the MToolkit (Motif-based Toolkit) as > the default in J2SE 5.0, but eventually will be replaced with XToolkit. > > Cheers, > Marie-Josée > > > > > Josh Goodman wrote: >> Hi Marie-Josee, >> >> Out of curiosity are you also running the Compiz window manager? It is my >> understanding that this >> is the default in Ubuntu 7.10, but I don't have an installation available to >> check this. If you >> are, the root of your problem could be a conflict between Java and Compiz, >> some of which is detailed >> here http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6632124. >> >> This problem manifests itself as empty/grey dialog boxes when opening new >> windows. Is this what you >> were seeing? I have not tested Apollo under Compiz but other java apps I >> used exhibited this >> problem. In my case setting the environment as you did fixed some problems >> but not all. >> >> Cheers, >> Josh >> >> >> Marie-Josee Cros wrote: >> >>> hello, >>> I had some display problems with Apollo 1.7.1 on ubuntu 7.10 for >>> maximizing a window, displaying the annotation information window ... >>> Setting the environment variable AWT_TOOLKIT to MToolkit resolves them. >>> (I put the command 'setenv AWT_TOOLKIT MToolkit' in the user .tcsh file) >>> Hope it could help someone else, >>> Marie-Josée Cros >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> apollo mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://mail.fruitfly.org/mailman/listinfo/apollo >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> apollo mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mail.fruitfly.org/mailman/listinfo/apollo >> > _______________________________________________ apollo mailing list [email protected] http://mail.fruitfly.org/mailman/listinfo/apollo
