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I found that using Eclipse on KDE lately was very problematic. Something about SWT requiring Gnome themes, that had been recently unilaterally converted to use
by gerbilly 11y ago
I found that using Eclipse on KDE lately was very problematic.
Something about SWT requiring Gnome themes, that had been recently unilaterally converted to use CSS for styling, or something...
Gah!
It took lots of fiddling to be able to open dialogs on Eclipse without crashing the whole application, and even after all that fiddling it never worked right.
Had to switch to Gnome to get it to work right, on linux, but hated that...
I know it's not KDE's fault if Gnome wants to change how it's themes work, or that SWT uses gnome, but between that and systemd making everything utterly confusing I don't use linux as a desktop os anymore, despite using it since Yaggsdril.
tl;dr: I now develop on OS X now, so I can open dialogs in Eclipse without crashing.
- gmb2k1 11y agoAdd the following to your eclipse.ini: --launcher.GTK_version 2 Alternatively set the environment variable SWT_GTK3 to zero to launch eclipse: export SWT_GTK3=0; /path_to_your_eclipse/eclipse As a side benefit: GTK2 with a compact theme will also make a much better use of your screen real estate. Especially important, if you want to work on laptop with a small screen diagonal. GTK3 as it comes out of the box is just ridiculous in this regard. Eclipse is completely unusable with GTK3 on my 1200x800 12" machine because of that.