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Recently, i have my Ubuntu VM upgraded from 9.04 to 9.10 aka Karmic. And when i tried to develop program using eclipse, i found out that, sometimes, in certain dialog boxes, “next” or “ok” button didn’t give any response. Initially, i thought it’s my VM’s problem, but when i repeated it with my desktop, the same thing happened. After googling abit, it was found that the problem was due the the recent change in GTK with 9.10.

To get around the problem, the simplest thing to do is to “Tab” and “Enter”. It was so annoying…

Luckily, there’s a trouble-free solution to it. You might try to set the environmental variable “GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS” to true before executing the eclipse. To make thing simpler, here’s a eclipse.sh that you might want to use for starting eclipse.

#eclipse.sh
#!/bin/sh
export GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS=true
<path to eclipse folder>/eclipse

Do change the <path to eclipse folder> to your eclipse’s current location. chmod it to 777 and run it with ./eclipse.sh