Issue running java GUI applications on Mac OS X 10.5.8 (Using OpenJDK7 bsd-port compiled against platform)

[Henri Gomez]

bsd-port use X11.

Did you have it installed on G4 ?

2012/4/22 Justin Wilson <justinleewilson at gmail.com>:
> Hi,
>
> II have a list of Java applications which I'm used to using on my
> standard Linux desktop however I've recently purchased a PowerMac G4
> and have managed to compile OpenJDK7 against the platform (using
> bsd-port). Great... however no GUI apps run correctly. I start of by
> getting a HeadlessException and after a bit of reading I've added the
> Djava.awt.false=false property when running the JVM.
>
> Now applications boot into a GUI correctly and I can browse through
> the menu items etc, however the one thing which doesn't work is
> keyboard input (most likely as a result of the headless switch I
> imagine). When I try to type no text appears and instead the output is
> either directed at the console or does not appear at all.
>
> Could somebody please help me understand what is happening and perhaps
> suggest any way of avoiding this issue? I'm not afraid to get my hands
> dirty in the code if it comes to that but I'd appreciate a starting
> point!
>
> Kind Regards,
>
> JLove
>