Jdownloader crashes compiz
Jdownloader is great for its ability to break caphta, and batch hosted downloads, i use it with love.. but.
After the latest update of Jdownloader, on linux ubuntu 9.04 64bit, when you run, it breaks compiz, you can solve this by, as expected, there is no problem on windows-vista, bravo!
- terminal : “gksu metacity –replace”
- run Jdownloader
- terminal : “gksu compiz –replace”. (optional)
You should do this everytime you want to start Jdownloader on linux. I suggest switching to Tucan downloader until this resolves, Tucan is not better but GTK native, i think the only minus is that it does’t have auto extracting. I guess this happens becouse Jdownloader conflicts with compiz-emerald when it tries to draw its own chrome.
UPDATE: 5 JUL 2009
New updates came, but none solved the problem.
UPDATE: 19 JUL 2009
YES! problem was caused by me forcing JDownloader to work on 32 bit Java on a 64bit system. So i modified the run command in the JDownloader launcher on my desktop and Voilà!
[YOUR JAVA PATH] home/JDownloader.jar
You can also install open jdk and run JDowloader with the path to that as Michi suggested in comments.
I’ve started to use JDownloader a few months ago, and I must admit I am absolutely thrilled about it. It is a great download accelerator.
Try the openjdk!
The crash is caused by the sun-java6 package.
Really? i’ve never accused java6 for that, i have 32bit 6 (32 bit for 32bir eclipse which is for 32bit flexbuilder linux alpha). So what do you suggest, can it be fixed by maybe reverting java version?
God this was pissing me off and spoiling an otherwise great app. I switched to openjdk and that seems to have stopped compiz from spazzing. Thanks.
for me adding AWT_TOOLKIT=”MToolkit”
to /etc/environment solves problem
sadly app strarts but often hangs for few seconds e.g addink links
@mufti: trying another jre generally works. And double check 32/64bitness.
@godstroke
for me intalling openjre or default-jre messes up ui fonts http://bit.ly/b8WZs2
What distribution is that? Try changing jdownloader theme maybe?
@godstroke thx for tip but only reverting to sun’s java helps http://board.jdownloader.org/showthread.php?p=54049 and distro is linux mint
upgrading distro solved the problem
Good to bear that, what distro was it anyway?
@ godstroke
Linux mint 8 -> Linux mint 9 (ubuntu clone)