>> The only reason I left it in there was for the AWT_TOOLKIT environment
>> variable support. Right now if you set AWT_TOOLKIT to HToolkit it will start
>> in headless mode regardless of what isAquaSession() returns. If we don't
>> care about that then I'll happily remove it (I'm asking because I don't know
>> if it's used or not).
>>
>> For example:
>> $ AWT_TOOLKIT=HToolkit
>> ./build/macosx-x86_64-normal-server-release/jdk/bin/java -jar
>> ~/Desktop/SwingSet2.jar
>> 2013-10-23 09:26:21.726 java[23276:707] [JRSAppKitAWT markAppIsDaemon]:
>> Process manager already initialized: can't fully enable headless mode.
>> Exception in thread "main" java.awt.HeadlessException
>> at
>> sun.java2d.HeadlessGraphicsEnvironment.getDefaultScreenDevice(HeadlessGraphicsEnvironment.java:77)
>> at SwingSet2.main(SwingSet2.java:224)
>>
>> But it's *only* implemented on Mac OS X so it doesn't appear to be all that
>> useful unless we want it implemented for other platforms, which would be a
>> whole separate issue.
>
> There's a documented way to choose a toolkit: it is the awt.toolkit system
> property.
>
> We don't care about AWT_TOOLKIT anymore. It was only relevant at the time of
> 1.5 and 1.6 to allow users to switch between MToolkit and XToolkit. Now that
> MToolkit is gone, this environment variable isn't needed.
Ah, ok. That makes sense. In that case we can nuke most of what I just put back
:)
>> Another option (I think would make everyone happy) would be to add a native
>> method to LWCToolkit.{java,m} that implements isAquaSession and returns a
>> boolean. Call this new method in the static initializer and use it's return
>> value to set java.awt.headless before calling initIDs. This will still be
>> done early enough that Toolkit.java will end up wrapping LWCToolkit in a
>> HeadlessToolkit, since it first initializes the wrapped toolkit *then*
>> checks to see if it needs to be wrapped. Then all that code in java_props*
>> and System.c could be removed.
>
> I like this idea. But it needs testing.
Cool, I'll poke at it when I get a chance.
-DrD-
