<AWT Dev> Bug 6913179, FileDialog uses native GTK under Linux: first patch

[Costantino Cerbo]

Hi Peter, Hi Damjan

2010/2/11 Damjan Jovanovic <damjan.jov at gmail.com>:
> Hi Peter
>
> Your patch causes a native assertion error upon clicking "Save":
>
> $ java sun.awt.X11.FileDialogTest
> java: ../../src/xcb_io.c:242: process_responses: Assertion `(((long)
> (dpy->last_request_read) - (long) (dpy->request)) <= 0)' failed.
> Aborted
>
> Clicking "Open" either silently exits or indefinitely hangs (no
> redraw) both the file dialog and the Java window.

Yes, using a new Thread with the GTK L&F causes the same problem also
on my system (Fedora 12).
Without a new Thread it seems to work, but the EDT is of course blocked.

I think we should investigate how we initialise the GTK multithreaded system.

Regards,
Costantino