I’m currently trying the latest Ubuntu 11.04 with the new Unity desktop. While playing around I noticed that Eclipse Galileo (3.5.2) and I assume Helios, too, is not showing the scrollbars. After googling I found out that Eclipse is having problems with the new overlay scrollbars. Apparently there are various solutions to this problem:
- Disable overlay scrollbars in Unity:
sudo su -c 'echo export LIBOVERLAY_SCROLLBAR=0 > etc/X11/Xsession.d/80overlayscrollbars
This works but looks like crap because it affects the whole system.
- Disable overlay scrollbars for eclipse only. This applies to the Ubuntu repository version of Eclipse which is started by a shell script found under /usr/bin/eclipse
These lines are added below the line:GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS=true export
# work around for LP #769277 export UBUNTU_MENUPROXY=0 export LIBOVERLAY_SCROLLBAR=0 # end work around
I prefer the latter. The original posting mentioning this workaround can be found here.
Thanks for the tip – rolling the mouse wheel over several thousand lines was a REAL pain.
Tip worked fine with no fuss and without messing up other programs.
Where would we be without that nice Mr Google!
Glad I could help 🙂
Thanks a lot for the tip – this was bothering me quite a bit 🙂
I used option number 2 but the line it was supposed to append looked a bit different than above (if anyone else wonders about that):
export GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS=true(Ubuntu 11.10 with Gnome Shell 3.2 and Eclipse 3.7.0)
Thanks the second way was what I was looking for…
Thanks.
The second option worked perfect for me using
(Ubuntu 11.10 with Gnome Shell 3.2 and Eclipse 3.7.0)