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Eclipse Welcome screen blank (Ubuntu 16.04) [message #1731300]

Wed, 04 May 2016 08:03

Joakim Vrangum

Messages: 2
Registered: May 2016

Junior Member

Hi everyone,

I've had a few issues installing Eclipse Mars.2 Release (4.5.2 - Build id: 20160218-0600). I installed it in the /opt/ folder on my Ubuntu 16.04 fresh installation, as I would prefer to have it visible for different users and not glued to my /home/ directory. After some tweaking I now have the program loading without any errors, but the only problem I've yet to solve is this;

The welcome screen is blank. Does anyone know what could be causing this, and how to fix it? I'm guessing the welcome screen is made using some sort of webkit plugin, and that there is some issue with this and possibly some installed package in Ubuntu.

Please note that I am fairly new to Linux, and this is my first ever attempt at learning Eclipse (and Java) so please take that into consideration. Any help is greatly appreciated.

Best regards,
Joakim

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Re: Eclipse Welcome screen blank (Ubuntu 16.04) [message #1731422 is a reply to message #1731300]

Thu, 05 May 2016 06:45

Diamantis Karagkiaouris

Messages: 8
Registered: March 2016

Junior Member

As far as i am aware this is an issue with GTK 2 and GTK 3. You can force eclipse to use one of them and not both of them on demand as it is by default. I use Debian XFCE and i fix it by running eclipse with this parameter:

--launcher.GTK_version 2 (in eclipse.ini or on eclipse binary)

or

export SWT_GTK3=0 (on bash shell)

I hope it helps!

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Re: Eclipse Welcome screen blank (Ubuntu 16.04) [message #1731468 is a reply to message #1731422]

Thu, 05 May 2016 16:27

Joakim Vrangum

Messages: 2
Registered: May 2016

Junior Member

Thank you very much! That actually did the trick. Not only that; it fixed a lot of other issues as well with windows freezing, or buttons not responding when clicked. I can finally start using the program now Wink

Best regards,
Joakim

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Re: Eclipse Welcome screen blank (Ubuntu 16.04) [message #1744991 is a reply to message #1731468]

Mon, 03 October 2016 20:52

Brett Holcomb

Messages: 9
Registered: July 2016

Junior Member

I'm runnning 4.6.0, build id: 20160613-1800 and have the same issue. I've tried the --launcher.GTK_version set to 2 and then 3 with no luck. Any other ideas. I get the welcome tab but it's blank and there are no entries in the log file other than can't open port 9000, 20080, and 10137. I'm not using the debugger yet so I can ignore these.

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