**Internal** Ubuntu 9.10 Workbench GTK Issue
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The IDL Workbench is based on the Eclipse development environment. Some issues have arisen with the release of Ubuntu 9.10 and the ability to utilize common menu items available in the Workbench. Some of the affected functions are
- Saving a newly created file
- Find/Replace tool available under Edit menu item
- The Search tool under the Search menu item
These are critical functions to most users work flows and the following information will help resolve these issues and provide users with a fully functional Workbench.
| Library modifications that software is dependent on often changes to meet new user and system requirements. The issue discussed in this document involves changes to the GTK+ 2.18 library that negatively impacted buttons created in the Workbench menus.
The work around suggested by the Eclipse Foundation (see the Note at the end of the Tech Tip) is to
- open a terminal
- enter at the command line: export GDK_WINDOW_NATIVE=true
- launch the Workbench
- open a new IDL file
- create some code
- select File -> Save
- click the OK button
You will want to add the above export command to your startup script once you have completed the test. That way everytime the Workbench is launched you do not have to manually set the environment variable.
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| NOTE: Information leading to this work around was found on this Ubuntu forum:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gtk+2.0/+bug/442078
and on this Eclipse forum:
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=291257
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| Upgrade Suggestion:
We suggest that you check to see if any bugs have been reported in relation to the Eclipse Workbench prior to upgrading to the next operating system release. Email support@ittvis.com if you have any questions about compatibility with the newly released operating system and they will provide you an idea of any issues that you may encounter.
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