Setting apple.awt.graphics.UseQuartz to false for applets with Apple's 1.5 update 4

Question

Apple seems to have quart rendering on by default: http://lists.apple.com/archives/Java-dev/2007/Jun/msg00066.html

However there are cases where this is attrociously slow. From a desktop app, I merely add: -Dapple.awt.graphics.UseQuartz=false

This fixes the slow rendering. But there's isn't a place in the Java preferences panel to set this, and all of my attempts to set it in ~/Library/Caches/Java/deployment.properties have failed so far.

Is there a workaround?

Also, will it be possible to generate an applet that sets this for the user in some way?

Answer 1

I believe what you are trying to do can be solved with this:

System.setProperty("apple.awt.graphics.UseQuartz","false");

Whenever you use the setProperty method, make sure to use it at the beginning of your main method so it gets set as soon as possible or else it may not take effect.

What I don't understand is why it was set to true in Java 1.5 and false in 1.6.