Eclipse on Ubuntu Karmic bug

There is a severe flaw in Eclipse 3.5 which is exposed in Ubuntu 9.10.
Eclipse seems to use the GTK library in the wrong way when creating dialog
boxes. As you would notice pretty soon, hitting a button hardly does a
thing. See this blog for more information:
http://blog.export.be/2009/10/fixing-eclipse-for-ubuntu-karmic-koala-9-10/

The workaround is to

export GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS=1

before starting Eclipse.

Will only be fixed in Eclipse 3.6 it seems.

Peter

PS: Once again, the Ubuntu users are clearing the path for their Debian
cousins... Eclipse 3.6 will be long released before squeeze comes out :-)

Eclipse on Ubuntu Karmic bug

On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 1:40 PM, Peter Soetens <peter [..] ...> wrote:
Dear Cousin,

[...]
> PS: Once again, the Ubuntu users are clearing the path for their Debian
> cousins... Eclipse 3.6 will be long released before squeeze comes out :-)

When I read this, I'm happy that I let you figure out this one by
yourself. I hope it took you quite some time to find out what was
wrong :-P
Actually, I got confronted with this bug more than a month ago in
debian testing :-)

Your debian cousin.

Eclipse on Ubuntu Karmic bug

On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 10:17 AM, Klaas Gadeyne <klaas [dot] gadeyne [..] ...> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 1:40 PM, Peter Soetens <peter [..] ...> wrote:
> Dear Cousin,
>
> [...]
>> PS: Once again, the Ubuntu users are clearing the path for their Debian
>> cousins... Eclipse 3.6 will be long released before squeeze comes out :-)
>
> When I read this, I'm happy that I let you figure out this one by
> yourself.  I hope it took you quite some time to find out what was
> wrong :-P
> Actually, I got confronted with this bug more than a month ago in
> debian testing :-)
>
> Your debian cousin.
> --

Here is more information about the bug. Might be a good a idea to join
the CC for them (I have).

Take care

your SuSE brother in law
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Eclipse on Ubuntu Karmic bug

On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 10:23 AM, Hugo Garcia <hugo [dot] a [dot] garcia [..] ...> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 10:17 AM, Klaas Gadeyne <klaas [dot] gadeyne [..] ...> wrote:
>> On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 1:40 PM, Peter Soetens <peter [..] ...> wrote:
>> Dear Cousin,
>>
>> [...]
>>> PS: Once again, the Ubuntu users are clearing the path for their Debian
>>> cousins... Eclipse 3.6 will be long released before squeeze comes out :-)
>>
>> When I read this, I'm happy that I let you figure out this one by
>> yourself.  I hope it took you quite some time to find out what was
>> wrong :-P
>> Actually, I got confronted with this bug more than a month ago in
>> debian testing :-)
>>
>> Your debian cousin.
>> --
>
> Here is more information about the bug. Might be a good a idea to join
> the CC for them (I have).
>
> Take care
>
> your SuSE brother in law
>

https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=291257
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Eclipse on Ubuntu Karmic bug

On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 7:40 AM, Peter Soetens <peter [..] ...> wrote:
> There is a severe flaw in Eclipse 3.5 which is exposed in Ubuntu 9.10.
> Eclipse seems to use the GTK library in the wrong way when creating dialog
> boxes. As you would notice pretty soon, hitting a button hardly does a
> thing. See this blog for more information:
> http://blog.export.be/2009/10/fixing-eclipse-for-ubuntu-karmic-koala-9-10/
>
> The workaround is to
>

> export GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS=1
> 

> before starting Eclipse.
>
> Will only be fixed in Eclipse 3.6 it seems.
>
> Peter
>
> PS: Once again, the Ubuntu users are clearing the path for their Debian
> cousins... Eclipse 3.6 will be long released before squeeze comes out :-)
>
> --

Actually, this is the bug report and it affects ALL new Linux distributions:

https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=290395

work around is to put the following in .bashrc or as mentioned above
to execute in command line:

export GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS=true

-H