More odd behaviour: IDEA 6.0.1, FC 6 and Compiz window manager

Running with -Dawt.nativeDoubleBuffering=true may help, but app will flicker,

This is Compiz (glx/xgl) bug with Swing applications.

Hmm, even with that, it only partially renders (http://surtani.org/~manik/Screenshot.png)

But it has introduced a nasty flicker on the dialogs that pop up, as you predicted! :)

One user suggested adding this to idea.vmoptions:
-Dawt.toolkit=sun.awt.motif.MToolkit

Manik Surtani schrieb:

Even more weird behaviour. The Compiz window manager that comes with
Fedora Core 6 uses DRI 3D acceleration for rendering the desktop, and
this seems to cause problems with IntelliJ.IDEA starts up fine, but
the main window is completely blank - no menu items, nothing. Key
shortcuts still work though and popups are visible.

This is due to a bug in the Toolkit where AWT expects the window to be
reparented and doesn't listen to any other events before the window
manager does that. However, Compiz/Beryl won't reparent the window.

export AWT_TOOLKIT=MToolkit

=> This will fix the blank window, but repaints are extremly slow.

Additionally setting

Option BackingStore "on"

in xorg.conf fixed that for me (nVidia beta drivers).

However, normally, when I work with IDEA, I have a second Screen where
IDEA runs fullscreen. So I configured Beryl only for the first Screen,
the second screen is running plain X.org with flwm.

HTH,
Raffi

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This worked for me. However, you might need to install libXp from the core repo.

Does anyone know if this bug has been reported to redhat? Or whoever wrote the Compiz bug?

that worked for me too

Yes, I have reported this to the fedora-desktop mail list, and they have in turn raised this bug with Sun as it is a Swing bug.

Doesn't happen, for example, with Eclipse which doesn't use Swing.