I am delighted to report, that at long last, I’ve managed to successfully get Zend Studio 5.5 running on Fedora 8. It turns out that, no matter how hard I tried, I could not get Zend Studio 5.5 to run with Sun’s JRE / JDK 1.6. However, switching back to the 1.5 release worked like a charm.
I hadn’t realised just how easy it is to switch back to use JRE 1.5. It doesn’t need to be your system-wide java default. Simply download the release (.bin, not .rpm.bin) then switch to /opt and run the file as root. Accept the licence agreement, then it’ll unpack the JRE.
Then run this commands to correct for a change in F8:
cd lib/i386/xawt; cp libmawt.so libmawt.so.orig; sed -i "s/XINERAMA/FAKEEXTN/g" libmawt.so
This creates a backup of the libmawt.so file then runs a find / replace on it. Now to get Zend Studio 5.5 to use this JRE, simply edit the bin/runStudio_unix.sh file (in your Zend folder).
Then replace ../jre/bin/java with /opt/jre1.5.0_13/bin/java. Now run that file as your own user and Zend Studio will launch. No more blank windows.
Excellent dude! Nice “discovery”! I’ll have that in mind when i next time switch to Linux…
Zend, zip zop plop.
Zippedy do daah dey. I got reason 4.8 to run on madness the other day, turns out all that was needed was a radical shift of perspective.
I don’t know - operating systems, modus operandi
zing, zing, zing
ill phone soon…
I had the same problem with F8 x_64. The solution above did no work me me. I found a very simple solution that worked and thought I would post it. The link is…
http://blog.solutionperspectivemedia.co.uk/plugin/tag/compiz
@Remo: The solution you mention didn’t work for me. It’s the same as adding the argument to the command line, it changes the AWT Toolkit in use. The only solution I found was to go back to JRE 1.5.