Thursday, October 25, 2007

installing netbeans

When trying to install Netbeans, you'll get the error

java: xcb_xlib.c:52: xcb_xlib_unlock: Assertion `c->xlib.lock' failed.

google will tell you that it's a bug in sun java. To fix it
For sun-java5-bin:
sed -i 's/XINERAMA/FAKEEXTN/g' /usr/java/java-1.5.0-sun-1.5.0.11/jre/lib/i386/xawt/libmawt.so

For sun-java6-bin:
sed -i 's/XINERAMA/FAKEEXTN/g' /usr/java/java-6-sun-1.6.0.00/jre/lib/i386/xawt/libmawt.so


Netbeans does not run in compiz-fusion, all I got was blank screen. Turning off compiz-fusion and back on works.

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