Problem I had when upgrading from Ubuntu Jaunty 9.04 to the Karmic 9.10 beta:
Eclipse (and Aptana) exhibited a number of UI issues. Buttons clicked would perform no action. The update/install new software window would be blank where it was supposed to show the options of software to install (you could click where the options should be and see their text description appear below, but you could not see what you were clicking on).
The solution, at least for now, is to create a script like this:
#!/bin/bash
export GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS=true
/opt/eclipse/eclipse
Remember to “chmod +x” that script to make it executable. Setting the GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS environmental variable to True will fix those UI issues, at least while we wait for newer Eclipse/Aptana builds that work better with GTK+ 2.8.
Thank you so much! This workaround really works!! But I’ve wasted several hours before find your solution.. (((
Comment by Dmitri — 10/30/2009 @ 8:19 am
Worked for me, too, for the Aptana standalone and Eclipse. Thanks!
Comment by Ennay — 10/30/2009 @ 9:38 am
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The keyboard shortcuts (like Alt-N) would work and if you tabbed to the button and spacebar-clicked it would work, but the lack of mouse clicking was driving me nuts. Thanks for the help.
Comment by Jeremy Logan — 11/1/2009 @ 3:40 pm
Thanks very much. It helps (for Eclipse)
Comment by Rafał Piotrowski — 11/4/2009 @ 1:29 am
The solution works for the buttons problem. But I’ve still got serious trouble to work on webprojects via ftp: opening and saving files is veeery slow. I need to wait at least 1-2 minutes everytime I press save. And, after saving about 10 times I can´t save no more, just a broken error dialog appears and I have to close and restart Aptana to work on. Thats far beyond anoying, it just aint possible to work that way.
I have a xp-machine here too, the problem doesnt appear there (on the same ftp-spaces).
If somebody got a hint I would be very thankfull
Comment by Barti — 2/15/2010 @ 4:05 am
Thanks a lot for this tip. I just changed my launcher command to this
“env GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS=true /xxx/Aptana_RadRails_2.0.2/AptanaRadRails” to run aptana with the given environment variables
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It does not fixed my problem, but it could be ZendStudio 7 Problem, anyway thanks for the post
Comment by RazorBlade446 — 2/25/2010 @ 8:48 am