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

Question

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 1

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.

Answer 2

Works on OS X, too.