I have been playing around with awesome and ran into some issues with Java programs (apparently others users are running into those problems too). I hacked together a patch against OpenJDK7 that seems to solve all my issues:
diff --git a/src/solaris/classes/sun/awt/X11/XWM.java b/src/solaris/classes/sun/awt/X11/XWM.java
--- a/src/solaris/classes/sun/awt/X11/XWM.java
+++ b/src/solaris/classes/sun/awt/X11/XWM.java
@@ -102,7 +102,8 @@
METACITY_WM = 11,
COMPIZ_WM = 12,
LG3D_WM = 13,
- CWM_WM = 14;
+ CWM_WM = 14,
+ AWESOME_WM = 15;
public String toString() {
switch (WMID) {
case NO_WM:
@@ -131,6 +132,8 @@
return "LookingGlass";
case CWM_WM:
return "CWM";
+ case AWESOME_WM:
+ return "awesomewm";
case UNDETERMINED_WM:
default:
return "Undetermined WM";
@@ -573,8 +576,12 @@
// getIntProperty(XToolkit.getDefaultRootWindow(), XAtom.XA_CARDINAL)) == 0);
}
+ static boolean isAwesomeWM() {
+ return isNetWMName("awesome");
+ }
+
static boolean isNonReparentingWM() {
- return (XWM.getWMID() == XWM.COMPIZ_WM || XWM.getWMID() == XWM.LG3D_WM || XWM.getWMID() == XWM.CWM_WM);
+ return (XWM.getWMID() == XWM.COMPIZ_WM || XWM.getWMID() == XWM.LG3D_WM || XWM.getWMID() == XWM.CWM_WM || XWM.getWMID() == XWM.AWESOME_WM);
}
/*
@@ -754,6 +761,8 @@
awt_wmgr = CWM_WM;
} else if (doIsIceWM && isIceWM()) {
awt_wmgr = XWM.ICE_WM;
+ } else if (isAwesomeWM()) {
+ awt_wmgr = XWM.AWESOME_WM;
}
/*
* We don't check for legacy WM when we already know that WM
Given the effort it’s taking to push a fix for mutter (the default gnome3 window manager), I wouldnt hold my breath waiting for this code to make it upstream.
