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Crashes or freezes in recent Ubuntu versions

This type of problems usually is caused by problems with the GTP themes. Defining custom GTK configuration settings the GTK2_RC_FILES variable before starting the eclipse helps avoiding these crashes.

This is a problem that also affects the Taxonomic Editor for which we suggest a solution which is described in
Taxeditor troubleshooting.

For developers we recommend using a eclipse start script: The attached start-eclipse-luna.sh contains a compilation of various options to avoid crashes due to various problems with the KDE Oxygen theme but also helps in other desktop environments.

The most simple start script is start-taxeditor.sh

Eclipse crashes related to tooltips

Adding the following option to the start script has solved the problem for some developers in the past.

-Dorg.eclipse.swt.browser.DefaultType=mozilla

Giant tabs in Eclipse Juno on Linux

Q: On Linux all GTK eclipse theme let render the views and editor tabs with a huge font size. How can I revert this to a normal look?

A1: RECOMMEND edit the plugins/org.eclipse.platform_4.2.*/css/e4_default_gtk.css and set the font-size to 9x or comment the font-size line out; see also very-large-tabs-in-eclipse-panes-on-ubuntu

.MPartStack {
    font-size: 9;
    swt-simple: false;
    swt-mru-visible: false;
}

A2: install according to http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11805784/very-large-tabs-in-eclipse-panes-on-ubuntu#answer-13536829 the E4 CSS light editor (Incubation) plug-in. You can find it in the eclipse market place. An add a css rule to override the default, e.g.:

.MPartStack {
    font-size: 9;
    swt-simple: false;
    swt-mru-visible: false;
}

Updated by Andreas Müller almost 2 years ago · 14 revisions