How to make Eclipse 3.5 work on gtk2 2.18
If you’re using Eclipse in Linux with gtk2, then you might have run into this issue: Buttons don’t work when you click on them, tree views are initially empty, icons are missing or not drawn correctly....
View ArticleWindows 7 Libraries Trigger Eclipse Builds
If you’re on Windows 7, you may know this odd behavior: For some reason, Eclipse goes into a build frenzy. Every few seconds, it will rebuild the workspace. The reason: You added your workspace to a...
View ArticleMysterious Eclipse Hangs
If your Eclipse installation hangs, there can be several reasons. If it happens while your tests run, chances are that a test printed an exception to the console view. If the exception is very wide,...
View ArticleMissing Icons in Buttons (Firefox, Ubuntu Natty)
If your firefox has forgotten about all the nice icons for button in the UI (i.e. if there is a back button but it has no label or icon and all the “close tab” buttons are just tiny little invisible...
View ArticleWhen JIRA Hates You
Ever had the problem that JIRA would not allow you in? Every time, it would say “wrong user name and/or password”? Using my crystal ball, I can see that you’re using Firefox. You’ve been hit by the...
View ArticleSuspend Fail in openSUSE 12.1 After Upgrading KDE
When you upgrade openSUSE 12.1′s KDE 4.7 to 4.8 (using this repo), suspend to disk or ram might stop working. If so, you’ve encountered bug 758379: STR (Suspend to RAM) fails when NetworkManager...
View ArticleFirefox Crashing When Opening a New Window in openSUSE 12.2
Does Firefox crash for you when you open a new window? Report the crash using the built in tool, then browse “about:crashes” (shows you which crashes you reports), click the topmost link. If frame #0...
View ArticleKDE Moves Window Edge Beyond Screen Border
With KDE 4.11, a new annoying feature was added: The window manager now moves a window beyond the screen edge. The original idea was to make the scroll bar easily accessible. But a lot of people didn’t...
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