Karmic Koala and Eclipse Galileo – Not BFF’s
I just installed the new Eclipse for the year ahead and found I couldn’t install the Android Eclipse Plug-In. I did some googling and found out the problem is to do with my mouse clicks not getting to the buttons I was pressing.
So basically I was pressing the button and the UI changed colour to indicate it was pressed but nothing actually happened, however if you use hte <Tab> key to highlight the button and press enter, it registers the button click and works fine. Whether this is a ubuntu bug or eclipse, it’s pretty annoying either way.
Anyway just thought I’d let anyone trying to Add Site to Available Software in Eclipse Galileo and not getting any response from button clicks should try using the keyboard. Just strange how some buttons (i.e. the cancel button) works without problem.
Hi,
I am facing the same problem. Anyone found a solution?
are you using the official sun jdk? what version?
I’m just using the jdk in the ubuntu repository which is version 6.15.1
I had tracked the problem down to the gtk+2.0 package. It’s a known bug by the team who develops the library rather than a bug with ubuntu.
I has also been filed here:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gtk+2.0/+bug/450991
Which I’m unsure if this is exactly the same bug as I’m experiencing.
Just thought I’d share this link which describes the problem
(which apparently lies within SWT if I’m reading the post properly)
along with a (WORKING) temporary solution to it:
http://blog.export.be/2009/10/fixing-eclipse-for-ubuntu-karmic-koala-9-10/
Thanks for the post Ross, I’ll give it a try tonight.
The problem is still related to GTK+, but the post describes it pretty well so I’ll leave it for people to read there
Good find.