There's actually a workaround for this. Most Java distributions have the ability to work with non-reparenting WM's, but they detect it based on the window mana

There's actually a workaround for this. Most Java distributions have the ability to work with non-reparenting WM's, but they detect it based on the window manager name. So the workaround ends up being impersonating another non-reparenting WM, for instance Sun's Looking Glass. http://awesome.naquadah.org/wiki/Problems_with_Java http://awesome.naquadah.org/wiki/Problems_with_Java