JDK-8198654 : Switch FX's default GTK version to 3
  • Type: Enhancement
  • Component: javafx
  • Sub-Component: window-toolkit
  • Affected Version: openjfx11
  • Priority: P2
  • Status: Resolved
  • Resolution: Fixed
  • Submitted: 2018-02-23
  • Updated: 2019-06-27
  • Resolved: 2018-03-20
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Related Reports
Relates :  
JDK-8210411 - JavaFX crashes on Ubuntu 18.04 with Wayland
Relates :  
JDK-8156779 - GTK3: warning when running SwingNode applications
Relates :  
JDK-8198649 - Switch AWT/Swing's default GTK version to 3
Relates :  
JDK-8222497 - [8u] Switch on GTK3 as a default GTK L&F in javafx
Sub Tasks
JDK-8210677 :  
Release Note: Switch default GTK version to 3 - Resolved
Description
See JDK-8198649 for the description and motivation.

All the same reasons for doing this apply to FX. Additionaly, Swing interop requires the versions of GTK to be the same, so if we don't do this, then Swing interop applications will either get GTK 2 by default or GTK 3 by default depending on which library is loaded first.
Comments
Changeset: 3e6c9b6db694 Author: kcr Date: 2018-03-20 13:01 -0700 URL: http://hg.openjdk.java.net/openjfx/jfx-dev/rt/rev/3e6c9b6db694 8198654: Switch FX's default GTK version to 3 Reviewed-by: prr
20-03-2018
+1 -phil.
20-03-2018
Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~kcr/8198654/webrev.00/ In order to minimize the changes, I kept the existing logic which (unfortunately) has knowledge of the default value in both the Java code and the native code. It might be something to consider improving, but didn't seem worth the effort.
20-03-2018
This should be a simple one line change to the default value in each of GtkApplication.java and launcher.c. I also want to test that the various swing interop cases will work if the JDK and FX have different defaults (which they will if you run an unbundled FX with this change on an older JDK).
16-03-2018