Eclipse Confirm Buttons not working in OpenSuse 11.2?

**TheUnknownCylon** · 23-Nov-2009, 12:47

Hi all,

yesterday installed a fresh OpenSuse 11.2. Since then the confirm buttons (OK / YES / ...) are not working, when clicking (mouse). An keyboard ENTER-press does work.

What is the problem? Is it an OpenSuse bug?

Help will be appreciated.

Remco

**LewsTherinTelemon** · 23-Nov-2009, 13:05

I have not experienced that issue myself, having just upgraded from 11.1 to 11.2 and using Eclipse Galileo.

Usually when I have such silly things with Eclipse, I'll just re-install it, or install another copy into another directory. That usually clear it up.

Cheers,
LewsTherin

**TheUnknownCylon** · 23-Nov-2009, 13:29

That's what I also did, but it did not work. I am also using Galileo (Eclipse 3.5).

When I hit File -> New Project -> Java Project, I can't press Next. This is at various places everywhere in Eclipse (for example font settings etc.).

I am using KDE4.3...

Did not try on other Java apps yet.

**gabrielalexm** · 23-Nov-2009, 14:53

starting Eclipse with the following command fixed it for me:
> GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS=true eclipse

**vedantaulises** · 24-Nov-2009, 15:26

It works for me, Thanks gabrielalexm

**crramirez** · 24-Nov-2009, 19:50

Worked for me as well. Thank you!!

**wshawn** · 28-Nov-2009, 07:01

Just to piggy back this thread:

I can only find Eclipse 3.4 in the repo. Are you guys installing it directly into your ~/bin or what?

I need to run eclipse PDT which is in galileo (eclipse 3.5) and have also been having the button issue. I have been holding the mouse over the button I need and hitting <enter>

Incentively, I an having a similar issue with Firefox when it suggests web addresses via the address bar.

I think it a tad clunky to have to run eclipse as root to import new plug-ins.

If you guys have a better solution as well as an actual XHTML editor for eclipse I would appreciate it.

While I am at it: throw in a jQuery editor as well.

**pkc** · 12-Jan-2010, 02:37

Seems the repository eclipse is always a version behind for key functionality. After downloading galileo directly from the eclipse.org site, exporting GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS=true fixed the issue for me. I switched to GNOME for 11.2 and it appears KDE and GNOME have the same issue. Switching to the sun jdk didn't make a difference either.

This is an openSUSE 11.2 bug right?

**Stephan66** · 15-Jan-2010, 14:11

No, it's not just OpenSuSE. Same problem in Ubuntu. It's an Eclipse bug (#291257).

For more info see the thread called "Eclipse doesn't accept mouse clicks on buttons" in the "Pre-Release/Beta" forum.

**gbburkhardt** · 16-Jan-2010, 16:31

Thanks for the GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS=true hint. I would have never guessed. I experienced the same problems described in the first post, and setting the variable fixed it.