Fixing no GUI display in Visual Paradigm 3.1 on GNU/Linux with Composite Enabled

Visual Paradigm gives a blank screen (though the UI components works even the dialog is plain gray with no controls displayed) running in Gutsy (GNU/Linux in general) while Composite is turned on (Compiz-Fusion/XGL). It’s been discovered the reason for this is that the version of java jre shipped with VP-UML has this issue but if you replace it with the jre packaged with java 6 everything works fine.

Do the following to solve this issue.

Open the terminal and move to /opt/VP_Suite3.1
Issue sudo mv jre /opt/VP_Suite3.1/tmp

Once this is completed, issue the following command.

sudo cp –r /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre /opt/VP_Suite3.1

After taking a while it should be copied to the Visual Paradigm suite folder. Now close the terminal and fire the Visual Paradigm software, your Visual Paradigm should be running without any problem.

Note: The –r in cp command is to copy the folders’ contents recursively. If any of those paths didn’t work find out the path of them in your system and issue commands according to that.

Adios Amigos.

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