Bug 292625 - unable to click certain buttons with mouse
Summary: unable to click certain buttons with mouse
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 291257
Alias: None
Product: Platform
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: SWT (show other bugs)
Version: 3.5.1   Edit
Hardware: Other Linux-GTK
: P3 normal (vote)
Target Milestone: ---   Edit
Assignee: Platform-SWT-Inbox CLA
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Reported: 2009-10-18 12:10 EDT by Adam CLA
Modified: 2009-10-19 10:12 EDT (History)
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Description Adam CLA 2009-10-18 12:10:59 EDT 
User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/532.0 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/3.0.195.21 Safari/532.0
Build Identifier: M20090917-0800

I'm using Arch Linux with kernel version 2.6.31-ARCH under VirtualBox 3.0.8.

In Eclipse 3.5.1, I am unable to use the mouse to click certain buttons. Instead, I am forced to use the keyboard.

I've checked other applications for the same problem, and I have not yet found any.  In particular, I don't have this problem with Kate or OpenOffice.org, so I don't believe the problem lies with KDE or GTK+.

If there is anything else I can do to provide more information, please let me know.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Scenario 1:
1. Go to Edit -> Find/Replace.
2. Type something into the Find field.
3. I am unable to press the Find button.  I have to press Alt+N.  I cannot click any of the buttons on that dialog except Close.

Scenario 2:
1. Installed the Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse (http://download.oracle.com/otn_software/oepe/galileo).
2. Go to Window -> Preferences -> WebLogic -> Shared Libraries.
3. I cannot press the Edit button after selecting a library.  This button does not even seem to have an Alt-key combo that I can use, so I have to tab through to the button and press the space bar.  I can press Add and Add Multiple on the same screen, though, with the mouse.
Comment 1 Remy Suen CLA 2009-10-18 15:14:05 EDT 
Are you running on GTK+ 2.18.x? If yes, I suggest you try the following...

$ export GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS=true
$ ./eclipse
Comment 2 Doug CLA 2009-10-18 16:48:38 EDT 
I can confirm this problem for Debian (unstable) as well as ArchLinux. I've got the GTK+ v2.18-2 x86_64 packages installed in both and they both have the same behavior. The Help->Install New Software->Available Software dialog is another place where I've encountered this problem.

(In reply to comment #1)
> Are you running on GTK+ 2.18.x? If yes, I suggest you try the following...
> 
> $ export GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS=true
> $ ./eclipse

Setting this environment variable corrects the problem for me. 
Thanks!
Comment 3 Remy Suen CLA 2009-10-18 16:52:53 EDT 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 291257 ***
Comment 4 Adam CLA 2009-10-19 10:12:06 EDT 
Oh, wow.  Thanks for the workaround.  It works!  What a pain that was.