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Starting with eclipse 4.17.0 my cursor keeps disappearing similar to what is described in https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=495220. The fix suggested there does not work however. This happens especially often when triggering code completion. When the cursor is gone, hotkeys also do not work properly (e.g. saving the file or triggering code completion). After eclipse loses focus and gains it again, the cursor comes back. This happens so often (every minute or so), that I cannot use eclipse for my day-to-day work any more. I'm not the only one either, here are other people experiencing the same: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/58570511/the-cursor-randomly-disappears-in-eclipse-2019-09-and-sometimes-stops-writing
So the issue doesn't happen with 4.16? What is your OS? Which GTK version? Do you use X or Wayland? Which DE? Which Gtk theme?
Btw, is the internal browser in eclipse working for you?
Also which webkitgtk version do you have installed?
- internal browser is working - it did not happen with 4.16 - debian buster - X - window manager is fluxbox - gtk packages: - libgtk-3-0:amd64 3.24.5-1 - libgtk2.0-0:amd64 2.24.32-3 - libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37:amd64 2.28.4-1~deb10u1 - libwebkitgtk-3.0-0:amd64 2.4.11-3
I just remembered that I upgraded eclipse together with other package upgrades, so it may be related to changed gtk versions as well.
(In reply to Henning Rohlfs from comment #5) > I just remembered that I upgraded eclipse together with other package > upgrades, so it may be related to changed gtk versions as well. Does it mean you run eclipse from deb package? If yes would you please try with either the tarball from eclipse.org or https://flathub.org/apps/details/org.eclipse.Java which will give you system menues and etc. integration.
I installed eclipse from eclipse.org using the tar. I just happened to update multiple packages at the same time.
I'll try running via flatpak and report back whether that changes anything.
Update: bug still occurs, but feels like it is slightly less common.
Have reported the same issue with another testcase (code completion works fine at the same time) https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=569609 Still reproduced on eclipse 4.18.
*** Bug 569609 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Same problem here on an up to date CentOS Stream 8, and on all downloaded Eclipse SDK after 2020-06 (so, I am back using this one). webkit is the one provided by Red Hat: $ sudo dnf list *webkit* Installed Packages webkit2gtk3.x86_64 2.32.4-1.el8 @appstream webkit2gtk3-jsc.x86_64 2.32.4-1.el8 @appstream
I have a similar issue on Ubuntu 21.10. GNOME Shell restarting fixes it in my case. Press Alt+F2, enter command r (single character) and press Enter.
