[Xmonad] MATLAB and Xmonad

[Don Stewart]

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> Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote:
> >
> >On Oct 1, 2007, at 10:04 , Stefan O'Rear wrote:
> >
> >>On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 02:28:25PM +0200, Christian Thiemann wrote:
> >>>It looks like it's a problem with Xmonad.  I fired up an Xnest with fvwm
> >>>and MATLAB works fine there.  And Xnest with wmii and MATLAB works as 
> >>>well.
> >>
> >>Is the MATLAB gui written in Java?  There is a known bug in the Java
> >>windowing code which prevents it from working correctly with
> >>non-reparenting window managers like xmonad.
> >
> >Yes, the Matlab GUI is Java.
> >
> >Another known workaround that often (but not always, for unknown 
> >reasons) works is
> >
> >    export AWT_TOOLKIT=MToolkit
> >
> >before starting Java programs.
> >
> 
> Ok, great.  That worked for me.  Thanks.
> _______________________________________________

could someone summarise this issue generically, with the fix details,
for the xmonad.org/faq.html page please?

-- Don