ZAP GUI only get a grey Screen , followed the FAQ tutorial but stuck

[Freddie Ventura]

Hi there,

First of all thanks so much for this amazing tool , It feels like I'm in the peak of a huge Iceberg that I'm gonna enjoy a lot.

I'm just installing `ZAP` in my `Debian 10` installation , which has `dwm` as tiling manager ,

So If I `zap.sh` it gets loaded the GUI , it spawns some windows such as `Do you want to persist the ZAP Session?` I click the first option and Start
It looks like it loads properly but , the screen is grey , (despite that looks like the program is active as pressing some keys take me to some windows).

So I have asked in #zaproxy IRC libera , and a guy game me this link

https://www.zaproxy.org/faq/why-am-i-getting-blank-zap-windows-on-linux/
So I have tried following the tutorial and I get stuck in the sentence of

```

If you are using openjdk6 >= 1.6.1, the cleanest way to work around the hardcoded list is to warn the vm that xmonad is non-reparenting by exporting the appropriate environment variable:

_JAVA_AWT_WM_NONREPARENTING=1

```

First of all I don't know what do they mean with those instructons , do they mean to do something like

```

export  JAVA_AWT_WM_NONREPARENTING=1

```

I don't exactly know , I rather sometimes people would write the actual commands rather than common verbs that may be missunderstood , Cause they may mean a Variable inside `jdk` so the commands would change.

If I check

```

$ sudo apt list | grep installed | grep jdk
openjdk-11-jre-headless/oldstable,now 11.0.12+7-2~deb10u1 amd64 [installed,automatic]
openjdk-11-jre/oldstable,now 11.0.12+7-2~deb10u1 amd64 [installed,automatic]

```

And I'm not using Xmonad at all , I'm using `suckless` `dwm` .

Please let me know if anyone can help me

Many many thanks really :D

[kingthorin+owaspzap]

Yes that's what it means. However you probably need to add it to zap.sh so that it applies to the intended shell/environment. See https://github.com/zaproxy/zaproxy/issues/6665 for further details.

[Freddie Ventura]

Sweet !!

Thanks a lot !