Embedded SWING crashes the JVM

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The embedded SWING component for showing the JUNG graph crashed the JVM with the following error on Ubuntu (and possibly other Linux-based OS).

[xcb] Unknown request in queue while dequeuing
[xcb] Most likely this is a multi-threaded client and XInitThreads has not been called
[xcb] Aborting, sorry about that.
java: ../../src/xcb_io.c:178: dequeue_pending_request: Assertion `!xcb_xlib_unknown_req_in_deq' failed.

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The following link seems to suggest that adding the VM argument -Dswing.defaultlaf=javax.swing.plaf.metal.MetalLookAndFeel on the launcher config would resolve the issue https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=341799#c10

This doesn't seem to have the problem fixed in our case.

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In the same thread, the following post appears to have the look and feel initialized programmatically: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=341799#c13

public static void setupLookAndFeel() {
if (!lafInitialized) {
try {
if (Platform.WS_GTK.equals(Platform.getWS())) {
// Eclipse Bug 341799 workaround
UIManager.setLookAndFeel("javax.swing.plaf.metal.MetalLookAndFeel");
}
else {
UIManager.setLookAndFeel(UIManager.getSystemLookAndFeelClassName());
}
} catch (Exception e) {
_log.error(...)
}
lafInitialized = true;
}
}