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From Intellij to Eclipse (because of Compiz Swing bugs)

There are some serious issues with Compiz and Swing.

http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6429775
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sun-java6/+bug/124562

If you google "compiz java" you'll get a whole slew of the same.  Because I use a couple of the compiz plugins quite extensively I've had to move over to using Eclipse instead of Intellij IDEA.  And because of that I've had to hack a way for Eclipse to deal with the concept of modules.  Intellij allows you to create a project and then define modules within said project.

What's I've done is I've use Eclipse workspaces to define a project root.  I then create seperate projects for each module I want defined.  This is kind of a PITA but it works.  I know I could turn compiz off and move happily along using Intellij but I wanted to see how badly I miss it so this will do for now.  I really wish the compiz + swing issues get worked out soon.  There seems to be a bit of a blame game going on right now so I have no clue who is even trying to fix it.


Re: From Intellij to Eclipse (because of Compiz Swing bugs)

I turned off Compiz. If I want to have eye candy I'll use Vista or use a mac.

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