Eclipse freezes all the time with Ubuntu

Question

I have always avoided using Eclipse because I have had nothing but bad experiences with it. I have used it in three different computers, two with Ubuntu 13 and now in a new laptop with Ubuntu 14.

The problem I got is always the same: Eclipse just freezes, stops working. Back then with Eclipse for Java EE developers with some BPEL plugins it just randomly froze every 20 minutes and I had to force close it and it always messed the configuration.

Now I am using Eclipse for Android apps development. First I tried with standard Eclipse, and not only I got a lot of errors in the code with just creating a new Android project, but the interface would dissapear and come back partially when I hovered the mouse over that gone part, but it also froze when it wanted.

Then at some point just creating a new Android project froze the whole program. I just tried downloading Eclipse Java EE and the same thing happens: creating a new Android app project freezes Eclipse and all I get is a half-created, corrupted project.

I tried maximizing the memory Eclipse used and added a little hack I found around StackOverflow that is supposed to help. But none of these solutions did any good.

Here's my eclipse.ini:

-startup
plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher_1.3.0.v20140415-2008.jar
--launcher.library
plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.gtk.linux.x86_64_1.1.200.v20140603-1326
-product
org.eclipse.epp.package.jee.product
--launcher.defaultAction
openFile
-showsplash
org.eclipse.platform
--launcher.XXMaxPermSize
256m
--launcher.defaultAction
openFile
--launcher.appendVmargs
-vmargs
-Dosgi.requiredJavaVersion=1.6
-XX:MaxPermSize=256m
-Xms40m
-Xmx2048m
-Dorg.eclipse.swt.browser.DefaultType=mozilla

Any help?

Answer 1

I've had a similar problem using Eclipse Luna on my ubuntu 12.04, then I found this blog page http://blog.vogella.com/2014/02/21/using-eclipse-luna-on-ubunbu/ which gave me a solution.

Just create a script:

touch eclipse.sh

Fill it with this content:

#!/bin/bash

export SWT_GTK3=0
export UBUNTU_MENUPROXY=0
./eclipse -showlocation

Put this script in your eclipse directory then make it executable

 chmod +x eclipse.sh

and finally run it. Hope that helps.

Answer 2

I too had similar problems with eclipse when i switched to kubuntu as eclipse kept crashing...Download the latest version of Eclipse from their site which is https://www.eclipse.org/ (Elipse Luna) and install all the required plugins for android development and it should work smoothly....I guess you're using Eclipse juno.