Problems with Eclipse buttons in Ubuntu 9.10

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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I, along with my many

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.

Hi man! I just upgraded to

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!

Thanks a lot for that

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

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