Friday, September 24, 2010

Quick fix for Eclipse Galileo GDK issue in Ubuntu Karmic Koala

Due to an incompatibility issue with GDK windows kit in Eclipse Galileo version in Ubuntu Karmic Kola environment, some buttons of Eclipse IDE are disabled, which blocks users from creating a simple Java project in Eclipse.

There is a quick fix for this issue.

Write a wrapper script (eclipse.sh) including following lines
export GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS=1 # This line contains the fix.
/home/sajith/Dev/IDE/eclipse/eclipse # This line is for executing eclipse.

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