Hi,
I have installed the latest version of Eclipse IDE (4.5.2 / Mars) on the latest OpenSuse Tumbleweed but I’m experiencing several issues since on KDE Plasma 5 dialog boxes and all the tooltip are not working since an hourglass is displayed and the IDE freeze completely till you restart it.
Basically to reproduce this issue it is enough to open a Java file on Eclipse and then and then press CTRL+T on the class name to show the class hierarchy on a toolbox, and you will get a never ending hourglass.
Changing desktop environment from Plasma 5 to GNOME things are improving since I don’t have the previously described issue, but I’m experiencing some issues on the preference pane, since trying to click on the findbugs preference pane cause a NullPointerException…
On latest release of Ubuntu or Linux Mint I can’t reproduce the same issues. Are you testing the Eclipse IDE with OpenQA too ?
Where you downloaded your Eclipse from.
Although Eclipse has been available in OSS for many versions, the general advice has always been to download and install your choice of Eclipse from the Eclipse site.
You may need to specify which Java you’re using… openjdk or Oracle Java SE JDK.
And, if you’re using openjdk and coding Java, you’ll have to install openjdk-devel.
Depending on your coding language, you may also need to install other dependencies.
If you downloaded from Eclipse, then you <may> need to describe where you decided to place your Eclipse.
If you’ve downloaded Eclipse add-ons, you will need to describe that, too.
You may also have varying opinions about trying to set up a Dev environment on TW.
Building a Dev environment already introduces a number of possible instability issues, installing on an unstable and constantly changing platform like TW is not for the faint of heart, you can <expect> periodic breakage and unless you can wait you may need to figure things out for yourself.
I have installed Eclipse from the official website(www.eclipse.org), and placed it inside : /opt/eclipse/ .
I’m using the openjdk version of Java 8 installed from Yast.
It seems that the issues is graphics related, since all the issues are graphics related. For example another issue is that on Plasma 5 I can’t see the preferences pane, since only the default is displayed and when I try to switch page it doesn’t switch. As already said on GNOME desktop environment the situation is slightly better …
Hi!
I have the same issue, but configuring eclipse.ini doesn’t help, instead causes JVM terminated code=1 crash on startup. I’ve tried writing it in various lines, because I’m not an experienced user, but it crashed no matter where I’d written that line.
I don’t know if there is any concrete reason why specifying GTK should affect Java support, there is only an outside possibility that something in the GTK codebase that supports or connects to Java libraries might be different which would be an Eclipse architectural design issue.
Eventually someone may identify exactly what the problem might be.
In the meantime, it’s not sufficient to post a “me, too” – If you believe your situation is similar you will have to at least re-describe your setup noting the requirements posted before, ie. Your Eclipse was installed from the Eclipse website and not from openSUSE repos, which Java you’re using and how it was installed.
You’re right. I have openjdk1.8 and 1.9 (with the openjdk-devel packages) installed from official openSUSE repositories and I’ve downloaded Eclipse from the official webpage (tar.gz) and placed it in /home/bin.