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title: 'OpenProj Locks up with Blank Grey Windows'
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date: 2008-06-11T11:20:02.000Z
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draft: false
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taxonomies:
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tags: [ "proxy"]
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categories: [ "project", "apps"]
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---
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The symptom is that after starting sometimes there is some blurp
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dialog and afterwards the _**Tip of the Day**_ dialog appears. This
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stays grey and the application accepts no more events. You need to
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kill it to get out of there.
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This happens at the place which is protected by a firewall and has no
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transparent proxy. At home it worked fine albeit on my Macbook and not
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on my Ubuntu laptop.
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The reason is that there is some phone home
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functionality built in and with wireshark I could see the application
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trying to connect to a webserver. Probably to get the tips of the
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day. Behind the firewall this did not work and the application is just
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hanging there.
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I suspect that sooner or later it will time out, but I
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am not that patient. Since this is a regular occurence with java
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applications I also immediately knew that I had to tell it where the
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proxy can be found. In the file **~/.openproj/run.conf** file replace
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the line :
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JAVA\_OPTS="-Xms128m -Xmx768m"
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with
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JAVA\_OPTS="-Dhttp.proxyHost=proxy -Dhttp.proxyPort=3128 -Xms128m
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-Xmx768m"
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This directs the java runtime library to use the proxy
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**http://proxy:3128/.** And voila! ... Openproj starts immediately
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and in its full glory?
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