Eclipse: all main menus empty

Question

I use Eclipse Kepler on Ubuntu, which I downloaded and installed separately in /usr/local/eclipse

Last night I upgraded from Ubuntu 13.04 to 13.10, and today all menus (File, ..., Help) are empty. I don't know whether this is a coincidence or has to do with the upgrade. It should not, because I hadn't used the version from Ubuntu's repositories.

$ java -version java version "1.7.0_25" OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea 2.3.12) (7u25-2.3.12-4ubuntu3) OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 23.7-b01, mixed mode)

I already tried using a different (empty) workspace and deleting the $HOME/.eclipse directory, but this doesn't help.

Is there any hope I can get the menus back without purging and re-installing the whole thing?

Answer 1

http://tpbapp.com/android-development/fix-the-ubuntu-13-10-update-eclipse-menu-problem/ answers the question. It seems to be a common problem, which actually should be solved automatically.

Answer 2

I tried this solution but it didn't work for me. I found another solution in this post. It was posted by Robert (the last post).

I added:

• Exec=env UBUNTU_MENUPROXY=0 /home/user/Development/eclipse/eclipse
• Terminal=false

into the file eclipse.desktop located in:

• /home/user/.local/share/applications/eclipse.desktop