Problems with Eclipse buttons in Ubuntu 9.10
Posted on October 30th, 2009 at 14:44
After upgrading to Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) some buttons no longer work in Eclipse 3.5. Clicking has no effect but keyboard shortcuts still work.
It looks like Eclipse is doing some nasty stuff advanced hacking in SWT on GTK. This bug is fixed in 3.6M2 but you can work around the issue in Eclipse 3.5 by launching Eclipse through the following small shell script (assuming Eclipse is installed in /opt/eclipse-3.5):
#!/bin/sh export GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS=1 /opt/eclipse-3.5/eclipse
Oh,
thank you so much!! just discovered this bug yesterday, but had no time to investigate.
Thanks, you saved me some hours of my weekend;-).
Thank you very much.
The workaround I was using was: focus on the button and then press "Enter" on my keyboard.
I, along with my many colleagues are facing the same problem.
This work around solves the problem for most cases but there are still instances where clicks on buttons do not work.
I guess it was a good idea for me to wait to upgrade! This little bug just confirms my wait to upgrade until all the little bugs are found and fixed.
Thanks you very much for your advise! I got same problem when I wanted to update my Android plugin.
Thank you man, you are my hero of the day!
Thanks, that was really helpful !!!
thank you for posting the workaround.
Great fix! Saved me from pulling *all* my hair out!
Thank you very much.
Man, I love you.
I've been waiting for this for weeks ! Thanks.
Thank you!!! I think this is also fixed in the 3.6 builds of eclipse.
You are a genius mate!
Many many many thanks!
You rules! :)
Thanks!!. Lenkiu zemai galva
Thank You!!!
That's work good again. I will no come back to Xemacs :)
Thank GOD!!!!!!
Hi man!
I just upgraded to 9.10 and I was more than surprised, finding many buttons not to work anymore...
My first thoughts: WTF!?
Thank you for saving our collective asses!
To late for me. I wiped my Redhat box to make this upgrade. No going back. My first thoughts are that Ubuntu is the same as the rest.
Thank you!
I love you and will name my first child after you.
Great!. made my day. workaround worker well.
Nice, thanks a lot
thanks a lot
Brilliant man!
Thanks a zillion for that workaround, this bug prevented me from using BIRT charts!
Thanks a lot for that workaround, this bug cost me some grey hair!
This schould be published on aptana.com !!!!!!
This Workaround is also Working with RadRails2.0 Standalone! It has the same Bug.
I'm using 9.10 Karmic 64 Bit
Legend, great work
T * H * A * N * K * S
Thank you so much...
Merci beaucoup, but when the PDT package will be available ?
Great, works fine for me!
Thanks!
Thanks!
Also worked on eclipse 3.4 (ganymede)
You Da Man!!!
Solved my Eclipse problem, too. Thanks a lot!
I love you
You just fixed my work environment, THANK YOU VERY MUCH :)
Using the "New wave" theme also causes problems. Seems to be this bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gtk+2.0/+bug/411941 . Easy to reproduce: make a seach with a lot of results and expand all of the tree nodes by pressing the expand all button. Workaround: just use some other theme than "New wave"
Thanks for sharing this solution.
Great job man!
Thanks for sharing, you save me some trouble.
Works like a charm. Wrote a bash wrapper like you suggested. Thanks a lot.
Cheers mate. Nice and quick.
Thanks! I resolved it!
Thanks so much this helped!
Thanks you
Thanks!! Such an annoying problem...
THANKS!!!!
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