Bug 489652 - Pin to Windows 10 taskbar
Summary: Pin to Windows 10 taskbar
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: Platform
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: IDE (show other bugs)
Version: 4.5.2   Edit
Hardware: PC Windows 10
: P3 normal (vote)
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Assignee: Platform-UI-Inbox CLA
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Reported: 2016-03-15 09:59 EDT by Marvin Fröhlich CLA
Modified: 2022-05-05 14:02 EDT (History)
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Description Marvin Fröhlich CLA 2016-03-15 09:59:02 EDT 
In windows 7 I had to add the JRE bin folder to the eclipse.ini to trick Eclipse to be able to be pinned to the taskbar.

This trick doesn't work on many Windows 10 systems. Some systems allow it.

Of course I can always pin the launcher icon, but get a double entry for a running eclipse instance.

Is this behavior known? Is there a fix for it?
Comment 1 Frank Benoit CLA 2020-02-27 03:55:55 EST 
For me, in Win10, it works well when pointing -vm to jvm.dll

-vm
c:/Program Files/Java/jre8/bin/server/jvm.dll

In my understanding this means, no new java process is used, instead it is really the eclipse.exe process.
Comment 2 James Garrison CLA 2022-05-05 14:02:29 EDT 
This has been an ongoing issue for at least 7 years, there are posts on StackOverflow from 2015.

Is there a canonical fix, and can this be integrated into the product?