added the java odyssee to CAVEATS section

new_dwm
arg@mig29 18 years ago
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.SH CAVEATS .SH CAVEATS
The status bar may display The status bar may display
.BR "broken pipe" .BR "broken pipe"
when dwm has been started by when dwm has been started by an X session manager like
.BR xdm (1), .BR xdm (1),
because it closes standard output before executing dwm. because those close standard output before executing dwm.
.P
Java applications which use the XToolkit/XAWT backend may draw grey windows
only. The XToolkit/XAWT backend breaks ICCCM-compliance in recent JDK 1.5 and early
JDK 1.6 versions, because it assumes a reparenting window manager. As workaround
wether you use JDK 1.4 (which don't contains the XToolkit/XAWT backend) or you
define the following environment variable accordingly (to use the older Motif
backend instead):
.BR AWT_TOOLKIT=MToolkit .
.SH SEE ALSO .SH SEE ALSO
.BR dmenu (1) .BR dmenu (1)

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