Ubuntu 16 LTS - Eclipse window preferences not working properly

Question

I\'ve just installed Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. I downloaded a fresh Eclipse on March 2 for Linux 64-bit.

I am using the latest Oracle hotspot JDK 1.8 update 91 release.

Answer 1

put the 2 lines in italics below into eclipse.ini:

--launcher.GTK_version 2

before the line:

--launcher.appendVmargs