[CoLoCo] Having troubles with Alice....

[Kevin Fries]

Install real Java not that BS open source crap Ubuntu insists on
installing by default.  In Ubuntu, its called sun-java6.*

I have had all sorts of developer issues with that crap open source
version Ubuntu installs.  Also, make sure all your alternatives point to
the sun java instead of the GCJ version.  I'll bet most if not all your
display issues will go away.

It's the first think I do on any of my machines, and Java is NEVER an
issue.  You most likely had to do the same step in Windows because the
version that comes from MS is old and just as out of date as the GCJ
version... maybe even older.

Projects not specifically built for a specific distribution generally
fall back on standards.  In this case, Sun is the standard.  Follow
standards in this case, and your problem should disappear.

-  
Kevin Fries
Senior Linux Engineer
Computer and Communications Technology, Inc
A Division of Japan Communications Inc.


On Sat, 2008-06-14 at 18:04 -0600, Richard Guenther wrote:
> Yeah, both Alice and Carnegie Melon are pretty pro-Linux. :-)  They
> even run their own distro there on campus:
> 
> http://www.cmu.edu/computing/doc/os/linux.html
> 
> ...and they're pretty active in Linux kernal development:
> 
> http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rtmach/
> 
> Anyway, I forgot to mention that I turned all desktop effects off as a
> precaution.  If I don't the Java message windows will often not work
> (just gray boxes--no info) when I run awt or swing GUI creations.  
> 
> I just wish I knew what happened when I screwed up the xorg.config and
> it booted in a different mode, because then it rendered everything in
> Alice perfectly--bunch of other things were screwed up, but not the
> graphics in Alice.
> 
> Well, if all else fails, I'm spending a week in July at CM, so I guess
> I could ask them in person....
> 
> Richard
> 
> On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 4:21 PM, David Overcash
> <funnylookinhat at gmail.com> wrote:
>         The alice site looks great for me on firefox.
>         
>         And if you consider Carnegie Melon Graduate Students script
>         kiddies, your standards are far too high.
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