Window Reparenting and Java


The Players

Recently I purchased a personal licence to all the JetBrains products, which I believe are truly excellent tools.

I expected the experience of using them on linux to be pretty seamless!

The Reality

… Not so much, unfortunately. However, I do not really think it is JetBrain’s fault.

It’s at least partially my fault for using a hipster window manager.

Window “Reparenting”

Why does Java care?

Source code!

It’s been fixed!

https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8058197