I just installed ubuntu 16.04 and downloaded eclipse and extracted. When i start eclipse the welcome page is empty.
When i start the eclipse marketplace nothing happens.
How to solve this issue?
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The same here , just download `Eclipse Luna` not `Eclipse mars` it will work , hopefully.. – SeleM Apr 24 '16 at 11:34
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The same happens also for Ubuntu 16.04 and Eclipse Luna with the solutions below not working for JRE 8 – aloplop85 Jul 05 '16 at 14:21
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Try with the JDK 8. – Asterios Raptis Jul 08 '16 at 10:14
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JDK 8 does not help.. – Zhubarb Oct 02 '16 at 16:35
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Try to start Eclipse after editing your eclipse.ini file and tweaking the launcher entry like this:
--launcher.GTK_version
2
Example file:
-startup
plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher_1.3.100.v20150511-1540.jar
--launcher.GTK_version
2
-product
org.eclipse.epp.package.cpp.product
--launcher.defaultAction
openFile
-showsplash
org.eclipse.platform
--launcher.XXMaxPermSize
256m
--launcher.defaultAction
openFile
--launcher.appendVmargs
-vmargs
-Dosgi.requiredJavaVersion=1.7
-XX:MaxPermSize=256m
-Xms256m
-Xmx1024m
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I added this in the eclipse.ini and it worked. This worked from shell script too. – Asterios Raptis Apr 26 '16 at 11:54
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Better than "tweak" I would use the term "add". I added the 2 lines to the eclipse.ini file and it worked. – Iker Jamardo Zugaza May 06 '16 at 05:49
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It's probably due to the GTK 3 SWT implementation. Eclipse should work perfectly with GTK 2, but uses GTK 3 on recent ubuntu.
Do a test in the command line to verify it:
Disable GTK:
export SWT_GTK3=0Launch eclipse in the same session:
eclipse
If it works, make it permanent. Locate eclipse.desktop and add:
Exec=env SWT_GTK3=0 eclipse
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1Sorry it didn't work for you, but this advice worked for me. Before, my Eclipse (running on Ubuntu 16.04, using openjdk-8-jre) wasn't able to open windows like Window->Preferences or Help->Install New Software..., and options like Edit->Find/Replace... were greyed out in the menu, even while I was in an editor. Windows that were meant to popup at startup only appeared when I quit Eclipse. All this was fixed by setting SWT_GTK3=0, as above. – Stuart Caie Apr 25 '16 at 13:45
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Open eclipse.ini and add the following
--launcher.GTK_version
2
before --launcher.appendVmargs
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