What distro of Linux are you running? I wonder if you're running into an issue similar to this one:
http://java-hamster.blogspot.com/2007/06/troubles-with-javaawtdesktop-browse.html On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 2:02 PM, Thad <thad.humphr...@gmail.com> wrote: > When I started Firefox 3.5.5 this morning, it updated the GWT > Developer Plugin to 1.0.7263 > > Downloaded and installed GWT 2.0.0 on my Linux box, and tried running > the samples. The development mode tool will not launch the > application in my browser, requiring me to cut and past the URL each > time. The stack trace is: > > 00:00:00.001 [ERROR] Unable to launch default browser > java.io.IOException: Failed to show URI:http://localhost:8888/ > Mail.html?gwt.codesvr=127.0.0.2:9997 > at sun.awt.X11.XDesktopPeer.launch(XDesktopPeer.java:75) > at sun.awt.X11.XDesktopPeer.browse(XDesktopPeer.java:64) > at java.awt.Desktop.browse(Desktop.java:368) > at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) > at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke > (NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) > at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke > (DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) > at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597) > at com.google.gwt.dev.util.BrowserLauncher > $ReflectiveLauncher.browse(BrowserLauncher.java:115) > at com.google.gwt.dev.util.BrowserLauncher.browse > (BrowserLauncher.java:212) > at com.google.gwt.dev.shell.ShellMainWindow > $DefaultBrowserLauncher.launchUrl(ShellMainWindow.java:92) > at com.google.gwt.dev.shell.ShellMainWindow.launch > (ShellMainWindow.java:278) > at com.google.gwt.dev.shell.ShellMainWindow$1.actionPerformed > (ShellMainWindow.java:193) > at javax.swing.AbstractButton.fireActionPerformed > (AbstractButton.java:1995) > at javax.swing.AbstractButton$Handler.actionPerformed > (AbstractButton.java:2318) > at javax.swing.DefaultButtonModel.fireActionPerformed > (DefaultButtonModel.java:387) > at javax.swing.DefaultButtonModel.setPressed > (DefaultButtonModel.java:242) > at javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicButtonListener.mouseReleased > (BasicButtonListener.java:236) > at java.awt.Component.processMouseEvent(Component.java:6263) > at javax.swing.JComponent.processMouseEvent(JComponent.java:3255) > at java.awt.Component.processEvent(Component.java:6028) > at java.awt.Container.processEvent(Container.java:2041) > at java.awt.Component.dispatchEventImpl(Component.java:4630) > at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Container.java:2099) > at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Component.java:4460) > at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.retargetMouseEvent > (Container.java:4574) > at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.processMouseEvent(Container.java: > 4238) > at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.dispatchEvent(Container.java: > 4168) > at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Container.java:2085) > at java.awt.Window.dispatchEventImpl(Window.java:2475) > at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Component.java:4460) > at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:599) > at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForFilters > (EventDispatchThread.java:269) > at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForFilter > (EventDispatchThread.java:184) > at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy > (EventDispatchThread.java:174) > at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents > (EventDispatchThread.java:169) > at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents > (EventDispatchThread.java:161) > at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThread.java:122) > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google Web Toolkit" group. > To post to this group, send email to google-web-tool...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > google-web-toolkit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<google-web-toolkit%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. To post to this group, send email to google-web-tool...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-web-toolkit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en.