Problems with Eclipse buttons in Ubuntu 9.10(Cannot create/import project)

Posted on October 30th, 2009 at 14:44

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Afterupgrading to Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) some buttons no longer work inEclipse 3.5. Clicking has no effect but keyboard shortcuts still work.

It looks like Eclipse is doing some nasty stuff advanced hacking in SWT on GTK. This bug is fixed in 3.6M2 but you can work aroundthe issue in Eclipse 3.5 by launching Eclipse through the followingsmall shell script (assuming Eclipse is installed in /opt/eclipse-3.5):

#!/bin/sh
export GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS=1
/opt/eclipse-3.5/eclipse

If it still doesn't work, use this to try it:
The workaround I was using was: focus on the button and then press "Enter" on my keyboard.