Eclipse Galileo click problem on Ubuntu 9.10

Question

I\'ve just upgrade my Ubuntu from 9.04 to 9.10 and I\'m experimenting a very annoying problem with Eclipse Galileo.

The problem is that Eclipse doesn\'t catch some b

Answer 1

There was a change in GTK with Karmic. Here are the relevant bugs:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/swt-gtk/+bug/463086

https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=291257

Answer 2

This is a known bug (bug 291257) with Eclipse 3.5 and GTK+ 2.8 (fixed in Eclipse 3.6). The workaround is to set the GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS environment variable to true before to start Eclipse.

I use the following startup script for Eclipse:

#!/bin/sh
export MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME=/usr/lib/mozilla/
export ECLIPSE_HOME=/opt/IBM/eclipse
export GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS=true # workaround for Karmic - http://bit.ly/T8MIc
$ECLIPSE_HOME/eclipse $*

The important part is the line export GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS=true.