Clicking on eclipse buttons not working or does nothing

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To the eclipse launcher, add this line:
export GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS=1

Of course, this assumes you have an .sh launcher that your are executing. If not, then create one, and point your menu launcher to the new script. There is probably also a way to add this permanently to your environment, but I haven't found it (for instance, editing .bashrc doesn't work, it only effects when you run bash).

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37 weeks 3 days ago

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This was due to a bug in SWT or GTK. But the good news is the following fixes the problem

export GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS=1

To make it permanent you can add this entry into the /etc/environment file or create a eclipse.sh file and add it before calling /path/to/eclipse

answer by Visitor
37 weeks 3 days ago

Ubuntu 9.10
~/.profile -> export GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS=1 [failed]
env GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS=1 /path/to/eclipse [failed]
/etc/environment -> export GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS=1 [failed]

Gnome unsets this particular variable whenever he can. Is there anyway to forbid gnome unsetting this variable?

- Visitor 37 weeks 2 days ago

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answer by Visitor
37 weeks 2 days ago

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I created a eclipse.sh with the following contents and it works great for me.

#!/bin/sh
export GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS=1
/home/eclipse/eclipse

answer by Visitor
37 weeks 1 day ago

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As mentioned before, export GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS=1 shell variable before invoke Eclipse, or in my case, Aptana.If you want a simpler workaround: click on the "lazy" buttons that doesn't work to put focus on them and press Enter to "click" on them.Spanish link: http://blog.jorgeivanmeza.com/2009/11/problemas-para-instalar-plugins-de...

answer by Visitor
37 weeks 18 hours ago

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