What if your buttons don' t work in Eclipse?

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What if your buttons don' t work in Eclipse?

Written by Wilco Jansen Monday, 21 December 2009 18:14

Eclipse Ganymede logo Some time ago I upgraded to Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala 64bits so I can use all 8Gb of RAM on board. All my applications work like a charm, the new Virtualbox 3.1 is even nicer but when I installed Eclipse PDT I noticed a problem with the buttons in screens after I tried to get the Subclipse application installed in the PDT installation...nothing worked!

So I needed to move to command line Subversion management since that doesn't come out of the box with Eclipse PDT. Very annoying, because I use the Subclipse add-on not only for committing, exporting or merging, I also use it to check certain commits with the history option, and most important I am lazy by nature (all coders seem to suffer from that habit). Posted a question on the Eclipse forum and sadly got no reply, but today I found the answer to my problems from which obviously more people suffer.

Create the shell script below, and this problem is fixed.

#!/bin/sh
export GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS=1
{path to you eclipse install}/eclipse

Back to coding :-D

About the author Wilco Jansen

Wilco was born in 1967 in the Netherlands where he still lives. After years of being a programmer Wilco has worked as project manager and IT manager. Discovered Joomla! when he was creating his own content management system, and never lost focus after then. Joined core team as development coordinator in May 2006 just helping to make Joomla! even better then it is already. Wilco has been deeply involved in the Joomla project as Google summer of code program manager 2006, 2007 and 2008 editions, co-organizer of the Google Highly Participation contest in 2008, first ever development coordinator, creator of the Joomla bug squad, member of the board of Open source matters, regular speaker on world wide conference advocating Joomla and much, much more. Wilco has a bachelor degree in business and information engineering and studied Master of Science knowledge and information engineering at the Middlesex University in London.

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Re: What if your buttons don' t work in Eclipse?

# 1 - Posted by: Antonie de Wilde on 2009-12-21 19:32:33

Had the same thing with Apache Directory Studio and Designer (both Eclipse based tools) :)

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