Installing jre7-openjdk prints this message:
when you use a non-reparenting window manager set _JAVA_AWT_WM_NONREPARENTING=1 in /etc/profile.d/jre.sh
My WM is openbox, have I to edit the file?
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The re-parenting window manager article on Wikipedia strongly implies that openbox is a reparenting wm:
Virtually all modern window managers are re-parenting, although earlier window managers, such as the uwm window manager, were not. Exceptions to that rule are dwm, cwm, PLWM, ratpoison and xmonad, due to a lack of any typical window decorations used by these window managers, and also Compiz which drew the decorations separately up until version 0.9.0, where it became a re-parenting window manager to allow it to run in a non-composited mode.
answered Apr 13, 2013 at 13:00
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For awesomewm users, this page awesome.naquadah.org/wiki/Problems_with_Java states that awesome is a non-reparenting window manager.fonini– fonini2015-05-08 20:53:52 +00:00Commented May 8, 2015 at 20:53
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awesome is a reparenting window manager since 2010. See also: "This is the current version of the FAQ in the wiki converted to markdown, but some IMO bogus content was stripped (e.g. references to awesome being a non-reparenting WM)."selurvedu– selurvedu2023-06-25 21:40:56 +00:00Commented Jun 25, 2023 at 21:40
This is already answered (and goldilocks is right), but the answer isn't direct. To remedy this: No. Openbox is a reparenting WM. Just about any WM with "fancy" window borders is re-parenting. I know of no window manager with borders that is non-reparenting.
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1To make this even clearer: Xorg provides a simple form of "borders" that is not indicative of non-reparenting wms. If there's a simple {n}px border on all sides of a window (think dwm) it may not be reparenting. However, the sorts of borders that openbox (and most modern wms) draw require reparenting.bbenne10– bbenne102015-05-12 19:11:14 +00:00Commented May 12, 2015 at 19:11
/etc/profile.dis a weird place. The choice of window manager is a per-user setting. That means it should be set within the users home directory e.g.$HOME/.profile.