Not supported platforms for java.awt.Desktop.getDesktop()

java cross-platform desktop
Horcrux7 picture Horcrux7 · Sep 19, 2008 · Viewed 10.3k times · Source

Since Java 6 there is a class java.awt.Desktop. There are some nice methods but the class is not supported on all platforms. The methods java.awt.Desktop.getDesktop() throws an

java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException: Desktop API is not supported on the current platform

on some platforms. Or the method java.awt.Desktop.isDesktopSupported() return false.

I know that it work on Windows XP, Windows 2003 and also Windows Vista. The question is on which platform is it not supported?

Answer

Ilya Kochetov picture Ilya Kochetov · Sep 19, 2008

Quote:

Desktop API was developed to support Windows and Gnome only

from http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6486393

This article however says that even Gnome support is flawed on Fedora.

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