When running Starteam 2008R2 Universal Client with OS X, the Java implementation included with the OS will not allow the application to run. It will give an error stating “Can’t adjust composition mode on Mac OS X”.

To get around this, I used SoyLatte, a port of BSD Java onto OS X. I used the 64bit Intel binary for 10.5. This worked for me with 10.6,

Grab the binary and expand contents. Then move the contents to a new directory. I used /usr/local/soylatte.

Next, run the setup in starteam universal client.

./setup

You will be asked for the location to the Java directory. Do not use the default install, rather use the soylatte. /usr/local/soylatte.

Now run the app.

./starteam

This works on my MacBook Core2Duo. Earlier today I tried this on a PPC MacBook Pro with 10.5. It did not work, yet I think this had more to do with the Java build. The only PPC binary I saw when quickly browsing the main page was for OpenJDK 7 Beta.

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