Re: [Nix-dev] openjdk cannot run GUI applications in NixOS

2012-10-21 Thread Marc Weber
Excerpts from Marc Weber's message of Sat Oct 20 23:35:57 +0200 2012: > eclipse fails (strange exception message box) - however it also seems to Eclipse fails due to the cairo update from 1.12.2 to 1.12.4 commit dbfcc caused the failure In the console you can see such traces, I'm not sure wheth

Re: [Nix-dev] openjdk cannot run GUI applications in NixOS

2012-10-20 Thread Marc Weber
I've found two more issues with openjdk: eclipse fails (strange exception message box) - however it also seems to fail with oraclejdk .. I will bisect soon. Amazon ec2 tools don't work with openjre: desk amazon n%ec2-run-instances --region eu-west-1 ami-732c1407 /home/marc/amazon nixos

Re: [Nix-dev] openjdk cannot run GUI applications in NixOS

2012-10-10 Thread Marc Weber
I've had trouble with thinking rock (only using my old files). Never mind - I replaced it with task warrior For those who are still looking for a small nifty task management application: http://taskwarrior.org/projects/taskwarrior/wiki/Tutorial It looks like there are many different frontends. Ma

Re: [Nix-dev] openjdk cannot run GUI applications in NixOS

2012-10-10 Thread Rob Vermaas
Shea Levy [s...@shealevy.com] > Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2012 5:17 PM > > To: Sander van der Burg - EWI > Cc: nix-...@cs.uu.nl > Subject: Re: [Nix-dev] openjdk cannot run GUI applications in NixOS > > This should be fixed by > https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commit/5150b55bf21e39ae6

Re: [Nix-dev] openjdk cannot run GUI applications in NixOS

2012-10-10 Thread Sander van der Burg - EWI
: [Nix-dev] openjdk cannot run GUI applications in NixOS This should be fixed by https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commit/5150b55bf21e39ae6a7513b8bd7541ff6a4afb64 On 10/09/2012 08:59 AM, Sander van der Burg - EWI wrote: By the way: an interesting testcase is the Netbeans. I wrote the expression in

Re: [Nix-dev] openjdk cannot run GUI applications in NixOS

2012-10-09 Thread Shea Levy
*Sent:* Tuesday, October 09, 2012 2:51 PM *To:* Shea Levy *Cc:* nix-...@cs.uu.nl *Subject:* Re: [Nix-dev] openjdk cannot run GUI applications in NixOS Something like this: [INFO] --- gwt-maven-plugin:2.4.0:run (default-cli) @ backend-web-admin --- [INFO] create exploded Jetty webapp in /home/s

Re: [Nix-dev] openjdk cannot run GUI applications in NixOS

2012-10-09 Thread Marc Weber
thinkingrock, minecraft both fail, too. Minecraft shows a trace. I wasn't sure wether it was related to my ati proprietary drivers - its not. freemind is yet another simple example which can be tested. Marc Weber ___ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.s

Re: [Nix-dev] openjdk cannot run GUI applications in NixOS

2012-10-09 Thread Sander van der Burg - EWI
-boun...@lists.science.uu.nl] on behalf of Sander van der Burg - EWI [s.vanderb...@tudelft.nl] Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2012 2:51 PM To: Shea Levy Cc: nix-...@cs.uu.nl Subject: Re: [Nix-dev] openjdk cannot run GUI applications in NixOS Something like this: [INFO] --- gwt-maven-plugin:2.4.0:run (defaul

Re: [Nix-dev] openjdk cannot run GUI applications in NixOS

2012-10-09 Thread Sander van der Burg - EWI
t Mode GUI. From: Shea Levy [s...@shealevy.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2012 2:41 PM To: Sander van der Burg - EWI Cc: nix-...@cs.uu.nl Subject: Re: [Nix-dev] openjdk cannot run GUI applications in NixOS Hi Sander, On 10/09/2012 08:39 AM, Sander van der Burg - EWI wrote: I know that alm

Re: [Nix-dev] openjdk cannot run GUI applications in NixOS

2012-10-09 Thread Shea Levy
Hi Sander, On 10/09/2012 08:39 AM, Sander van der Burg - EWI wrote: I know that almost nobody uses Java GUI applications nowadays, but I have noticed that I cannot run AWT/Swing applications with OpenJDK (although the Oracle JDK works fine). For example, I cannot run netbeans with OpenJDK.

[Nix-dev] openjdk cannot run GUI applications in NixOS

2012-10-09 Thread Sander van der Burg - EWI
I know that almost nobody uses Java GUI applications nowadays, but I have noticed that I cannot run AWT/Swing applications with OpenJDK (although the Oracle JDK works fine). For example, I cannot run netbeans with OpenJDK. I have circumvented the issue by utilising Oracle's JDK in the netbeans