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Button clicks do nothing in Ingres Database Workbench, Eclipse and its derivatives

On some distributions of Linux when running Eclipse and applications derived from Eclipse the buttons on dialogs whilst accepting clicks do not seem to do anything.

After some minutes of frustration and even more minutes searching for an answer on Google I found this https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=291257 Any way the temporary solution is to set the environment variable GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS to 1 before invoking the Eclipse launcher.  For example, use a script that implements the following:

#!/bin/sh
export GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS=1
/usr/local/Eclipse/eclipse/eclipse

Another workaround would be to try using the keyboard’s space bar to make a button selection, but this gets a bit tedious.

Alternatively wait patiently for the advent of 3.6.

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Post a comment — Trackback URI RSS 2.0 feed for these comments This entry (permalink) was posted on Thursday, February 4, 2010, at 12:01 pm by notnull. Filed in development, Example, ingres and tagged , , .
  • http://nbrightside.com/blog Andy C

    You are using one of my favourite WP themes (plaintxt) and Grant Croker is using another (veryplaintxt) – both excellent, minimalist designs from Scott Wallick. Weird. I guess both of you have great taste in design as well as databases.

  • http://nbrightside.com/blog/ Andy C

    You are using one of my favourite WP themes (plaintxt) and Grant Croker is using another (veryplaintxt) – both excellent, minimalist designs from Scott Wallick. Weird. I guess both of you have great taste in design as well as databases.

  • Anonymous

    Great design, great taste, great minds, now, if only I had your penchant for writing.

  • http://blogs.planetingres.org/notnull/ notnull

    Great design, great taste, great minds, now, if only I had your penchant for writing.