Hi Danesh,
Overall, the fix looks reasonable. However, I see a problem with using
the RuntimeMXBean.getName() method to obtain the information we need,
because the specification of the method states:
Returns the name representing the running Java virtual machine. The returned
name string can be any arbitrary string and a Java virtual machine
implementation can choose to embed platform-specific useful information in the
returned name string. Each running virtual machine could have a different name.
There's no any guarantees regarding the format of the string returned.
Which means that if the XToolkit code is going to be run with a VM other
than, say, Hotspot, the method may return a differently formatted
string, and hence this code may fail.
Is there a more robust way to obtain the PID and the client FQDN?
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best regards,
Anthony
On 10/21/2011 12:03 AM, Danesh Dadachanji wrote:
Hi,
There's a bug[1] with java tray icons and the new gnome-shell, the icon
is no longer displayed. GNOME has adapted an additional spec[2] from the
freedesktop standards for its notification bar (system tray). It now
requires the XAtom _NET_WM_PID to be set, which in turn needs
WM_CLIENT_MACHINE. If they aren't then things don't go smoothly and the
bar won't show the icon/embedded frame.
The following webrev fixes the bug:
http://icedtea.classpath.org/~ddadacha/tray_icon/
This bug is also in jdk6 and 7 as well FWIW.
I would appreciate any comments!
Regards,
Danesh
[1] Original bug report -
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=683768
[2] http://standards.freedesktop.org/wm-spec/1.3/ar01s05.html#id2523510
