Eclipse behaves strangely on Ubuntu 9.10. My buttons won't work after the upgrade!

Question

Everything was fine until I did an upgrade from Ubuntu 9.04 to 9.10. Since then, Eclipse just doesn't respond properly. The following are the symptoms I can see:

• When I click on update, it grabs the available updates but doesn't show them. Any internal window that is displayed has corrupted buttons

• I cannot click on any of the buttons. I have to keep pressing Tab to highlight that specific button and then hit spacebar.

Anyone knows how to solve this?

Answer 1

There are some issues with the GTK on Ubuntu 9.10. This happens when you download eclipse from the main site rather than the ubuntu archives. The following fix was mentioned from the bug fix archives of Ubuntu (at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gtk+2.0/+bug/442078):

Start eclipse with the following:

GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS=1 /pathto/eclipse

I've had a lot of problems with it, so hope it helps someone.