Problems with Eclipse buttons in Ubuntu 9.10

Submitted by litrik on Fri, 30/10/2009 - 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

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142 Comments

Thanks a lot!! The shortcuts

Submitted by Christian on Mon, 11/01/2010 - 01:24

Thanks a lot!! The shortcuts still worked, but wow what a pain that was.

Perfect, thanks very much!

Submitted by Alvin on Mon, 11/01/2010 - 19:25

Perfect, thanks very much!

As others have mentioned

Submitted by Caradoc on Tue, 19/01/2010 - 17:15

As others have mentioned thanks very much... This saved me going back to MS windows ...

Holy crap, just lost almost

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 21/01/2010 - 17:51

Holy crap, just lost almost 4 hours on this...thought i was going insane....bless you for this.

Thank you!

Submitted by Anonymous on Sat, 23/01/2010 - 21:19

Thank you!

What can I say except THANK

Submitted by Mukthar on Sat, 23/01/2010 - 23:24

What can I say except THANK YOU VERY MUCH. I was going to uninstall ubuntu and go with windows.

Thank you so much

Submitted by Fabio on Mon, 25/01/2010 - 14:54

Thank you so much

Another fine mess! Thanks

Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 27/01/2010 - 07:23

Another fine mess! Thanks for posting the workaround, saved a lot of trouble. :)

Thanks a lot.

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 28/01/2010 - 13:34

Thanks a lot.

super

Submitted by wenzheng on Sat, 30/01/2010 - 07:48

super

thanks a lot

Submitted by Anonymous on Sun, 31/01/2010 - 00:10

thanks a lot

Hallelujah ! Hallelujah !

Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 01/02/2010 - 19:59

Hallelujah ! Hallelujah ! A sage is born !

Thanks, thanks, thanks,

Submitted by Ondrej on Mon, 01/02/2010 - 21:09

Thanks, thanks, thanks, thanks...!

Thanks man, you saved me. I

Submitted by enrico on Wed, 03/02/2010 - 03:41

Thanks man, you saved me. I had given up

thank

Submitted by Anonymous on Sat, 06/02/2010 - 02:46

thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Submitted by rsvelko on Sat, 06/02/2010 - 23:00

huge thanks from the Drupal community ;)

Thank you so much !!! You

Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 08/02/2010 - 19:32

Thank you so much !!! You saved my night :)

Much Appreciated!

Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 08/02/2010 - 23:29

Much Appreciated!

Danke!

Submitted by Oliver on Tue, 09/02/2010 - 13:34

Danke!

+1 to all :)

Submitted by drnet on Wed, 10/02/2010 - 04:13

+1 to all :)

You rock. Thanks.

Submitted by Greg Bishop on Fri, 12/02/2010 - 17:44

You rock. Thanks.

Thanks man!

Submitted by Samuel on Sat, 13/02/2010 - 01:07

Thanks man!

THanks a lot! it bugged me

Submitted by Tomato on Tue, 16/02/2010 - 07:34

THanks a lot! it bugged me for a while before I got here. Such a relief now :)

Thank you very much! :)

Submitted by Gennadiy Savchuk on Tue, 16/02/2010 - 13:13

Thank you very much! :)

Thanks a lot!!!

Submitted by SergV on Tue, 16/02/2010 - 13:13

Thanks a lot!!!

Thanks for sharing the tip.

Submitted by Ravi on Sat, 20/02/2010 - 04:24

Thanks for sharing the tip. Saved a lot of time.

THANK YOU! :D

Submitted by Calamitous on Sun, 21/02/2010 - 07:30

THANK YOU! :D

Thanks for the tip :)

Submitted by Pratik Sinha on Sun, 21/02/2010 - 08:45

Thanks for the tip :)

Excellent - thank you!

Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 22/02/2010 - 10:01

Excellent - thank you!

This solutions is works for

Submitted by Robertus Lilik ... on Tue, 23/02/2010 - 03:35

This solutions is works for me. Thanks a lot

Worked like a charm !!

Submitted by Gravata on Fri, 05/03/2010 - 19:30

Worked like a charm !! Thanks a lot !!

Kudos!! You are the life

Submitted by Anonymous on Sat, 06/03/2010 - 18:10

Kudos!!
You are the life saver!

Brilliant! Thank you so

Submitted by Jamie on Tue, 09/03/2010 - 00:21

Brilliant! Thank you so much! This bug has been annoying the hell out of me for ages and your post was the first page I found when I finally decided to search for a solution. Trying out Eclipse 3.6M6 now.