Comment 20 for bug 84501

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James Stansell (jamesstansell) wrote :

If you install openjdk-6 (6b08-0ubuntu1) in hardy (and possibly icedtea-gcjwebplugin) and use it instead of the sun-java6 is the problem fixed? Recent updates in the openjdk package include:

  * Install a wrapper script for javaws, which calls `javaws -viewer' if no
    arguments are given (or else starting javaws from the desktop menu
    would not do anything).
  * debian/JB-web-start.applications.in: Remove the -viewer option from command.

It sounds like those address this bug, but in the open-source openjdk-6 package instead of the proprietary sun-java6 package. Getting Sun to update sun-java6 can be problematic, but it should be helpful if we can confirm that the problem was fixed in openjdk.

-james.