The following work-around helped me on this. In order to make it work you need to have Xnest installed on your computer. It comes standard with most Linux distros so you should be good to go.

While in Xgl open a terminal and type the following:

Xnest -ac :1 & export DISPLAY=:1

Press ENTER. That should open up an Xnest window. Go back to your terminal and type the folllowing:

limewire &

Press ENTER. That should do it.

I wish I were more tech savvy and could tell you exactly why that works, but I cannot. I just know that it works for me.

I made a little script with xnest and it works well.
But when i open the options window or any other window from the menu bar, I get the same blank window.
Does any one knows a solution for that problem

#little script
echo *** starting Xnest ***

Xnest -ac :1 & export DISPLAY=:1

echo *** starting Limewire ***

limewire &

The bug was in JDK from Sun Microsystems
The bug (6429775) has now been fixed

... so no more hacks like Xnest or VNC are needed


Download it here
http://download.java.net/jdk6/binaries/


References:
http://download.java.net/jdk6/6u1/pr...dk6u1-b01.html
http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view...bug_id=6429775

I've been using Linux for quite a few years, but I've never had to install java from a tar ball like this. What are the steps for installing from this and then making it be the default Java environment?

Thanks!