How to display java swing on X11 when running on Mac

Question

I would really like to be able to run our test suite on Xvfb so that swing windows don't keep popping up in the way of my work. Unfortunately I cannot seem to find a way to get the java runtime to use the display specified in the DISPLAY environment variable. I suppose this is because the Mac JDK is hardwired to use the (non-X-based) Mac display.

I can't find any switches for the java command that say to use X either.

Thanks in advance for any help you can give! Matt

Answer 1

I don't know if there is a way to get Apple's JDK to use X11, but there is the alternative of using SoyLatte, which is a Mac Java implementation that only works with X11.