SSH X11 Tunneling

Question

I'm running Ubuntu 9.10 and trying to run a Java program I wrote whose source code is located on a remote machine. I'm using ssh to connect using the following command from the terminal:

ssh -X username@hostname

When running the program, one of the GUI frames has its buttons missing from view, but they are clickable and work as expected when I can guess accurately where they are. Running the code from my local machine they are present, and running from another windows machine using X-Windows they are present. Been trying to solve this problem for a few hours now but to no avail. Anyone have any helpful insight how to resolve this issue?

Thanks!

Answer 1

Are you using both Java 5.0 Swing toolkit and Compiz window manager? They tend to not like each other. Try use Java 6.0 or temporarily disable window effects.