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zencefil

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Registered: 2015-10-20

Posts: 27

[SOLVED] Problem with eclipse-jee + GTK(3?)

Hi,

I installed the eclipse-jee package (Mars) some days ago and I'm facing some problems which I think are connected to GTK3.

The GUI often fails to respond, like: when opening Preferences, I can choose a menu or submenu (Appearance etc.) on the left side, but it doesn't get displayed, it just sticks with the start menu (General).
Or: I want to add a new server, but can't choose anything from the list, "Finish" and "Next" buttons are greyed out and the search wizard also doesn't do anything.
First I thought it was this bug, but it looks more like a general failure of GUI scripts (if it's called like that).

Following the advice in the Eclipse wiki page, I added "SWT_GTK3=0 eclipse" to my .bashrc.

This helped, but only when I start Eclipse for the first time after startup.
When closing and starting again, I get the same problems as before.

Can anybody here make sense of this? I would like to find a permanent fix.
Thanks for reading!

Last edited by zencefil (2015-12-12 00:05:41)

oldbob

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Registered: 2014-09-29

Posts: 1

Re: [SOLVED] Problem with eclipse-jee + GTK(3?)

Zencefil,

Following the advice in the Eclipse wiki page, I added "SWT_GTK3=0 eclipse" to my .bashrc.

you should set the environment variable every time you start eclipse, i.e.

~$ env SWT_GTK3=0 eclipse

or, edit your menu entry accordingly!

OTH,

old bob

zencefil

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Registered: 2015-10-20

Posts: 27

Re: [SOLVED] Problem with eclipse-jee + GTK(3?)

oh, so I only got the command wrong. That's great news

It seems to be working now.
Thank you!