Can I right-justify a JFrame's title?

My client wants to display a JFrame's title on the right instead of on the left because we display Hebrew. I think he's wrong, but the customer is alw...
In the worst case, I can prepend spaces to the title before calling setTitle.
In the next worst case, I'd have to find the JFrame's UI and render it myself (yuk).
Is there a cleaner way to right-justify a JFrame's title?
Thanks,
Matt

What look-and-feel are you running under? If that LAF supports custom decoration mode, it should paint the title right-aligned under RTL component orientation.

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