{"id":594,"date":"2014-06-06T09:25:14","date_gmt":"2014-06-06T13:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scott.sherrillmix.com\/blog\/?p=594"},"modified":"2014-06-06T09:25:14","modified_gmt":"2014-06-06T13:25:14","slug":"jabref-and-xmonad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/scott.sherrillmix.com\/blog\/programmer\/jabref-and-xmonad\/","title":{"rendered":"JabRef and xmonad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I use <a href='http:\/\/jabref.sourceforge.net\/'>JabRef<\/a> for BibTeX reference management. It has a handy GUI and a nice web search feature so you don&#8217;t have to manually type in entries. But it apparently doesn&#8217;t like to work with tiling window managers like <a href='http:\/\/xmonad.org\/'>xmonad<\/a>. If you start JabRef in xmonad, you just get a blank white\/gray box with only a File > Close menu option and nothing else. This makes it completely unusable.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>It took me a while to google up a solution since there were a few false starts with some sort of MToolkit vs XToolkit option in Java but it turns out you can just <a href=\"http:\/\/mop.tumblr.com\/post\/361269248\/jabref-with-xmonad\">set the environmental variable <code>_JAVA_AWT_WM_NONREPARENTING=1<\/code><\/a> and things will start working correctly.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>So if jabref is in your path you could make an alias for jabref like:<br\/>\r\n<code>alias jabref=&quot;_JAVA_AWT_WM_NONREPARENTING=1 jabref&quot;<\/code><br\/>\r\nand then just type <code>jabref<\/code> and it should work normally.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I use JabRef for BibTeX reference management. It has a handy GUI and a nice web search feature so you don&#8217;t have to manually type in entries. But it apparently doesn&#8217;t like to work with tiling window managers like xmonad. If you start JabRef in xmonad, you just get a blank white\/gray box with only [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/scott.sherrillmix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/scott.sherrillmix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/scott.sherrillmix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/scott.sherrillmix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/scott.sherrillmix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=594"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/scott.sherrillmix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":608,"href":"http:\/\/scott.sherrillmix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594\/revisions\/608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/scott.sherrillmix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/scott.sherrillmix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/scott.sherrillmix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}