diff --git a/src/java/org/lwjgl/LinuxSysImplementation.java b/src/java/org/lwjgl/LinuxSysImplementation.java
index 66d445fb..0cec51af 100644
--- a/src/java/org/lwjgl/LinuxSysImplementation.java
+++ b/src/java/org/lwjgl/LinuxSysImplementation.java
@@ -40,6 +40,10 @@ import java.io.IOException;
  * @version $Revision$
  */
 class LinuxSysImplementation extends J2SESysImplementation {
+	static {
+		java.awt.Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit(); // This will make sure libjawt.so is loaded
+	}
+
 	public boolean openURL(String url) {
 		// Linux may as well resort to pure Java hackery, as there's no Linux native way of doing it
 		// right anyway.
diff --git a/src/java/org/lwjgl/Sys.java b/src/java/org/lwjgl/Sys.java
index cf2fe98a..f83ceef4 100644
--- a/src/java/org/lwjgl/Sys.java
+++ b/src/java/org/lwjgl/Sys.java
@@ -63,8 +63,8 @@ public final class Sys {
 	private final static SysImplementation implementation;
 
 	static {
-		System.loadLibrary(LIBRARY_NAME);
 		implementation = createImplementation();
+		System.loadLibrary(LIBRARY_NAME);
 		String native_version = implementation.getNativeLibraryVersion();
 		if (!native_version.equals(VERSION))
 			throw new LinkageError("Version mismatch: jar version is '" + VERSION +