Eclipse RCP menus and the new Natty Unity

So I restarted my Eclipse RCP applica开发者_开发知识库tion after I upgraded my Ubuntu, and it seems that the Main menu has disappeared!

Does anyone know if this is the fault of the new Unity interface or something in SWT?

If you're having the same problem as I had, about getting the Eclipse menu in the Unity Global Menu with HUD then this is what did the trick for me (nobody seems to be able to explain why it works, but for me and others it worked perfectly). I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 and Eclipse Indigo from their website.

(Change the commands accordingly if you're not using Vim for editing.)

1. Edit libappmenu.so:

   $ sudo vim /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/menuproxies/libappmenu.so

2. Search for 'Eclipse':

   /Eclipse

3. Replace the 'E' with 'X':

   rX

4. This might be optional but doing it didn't hurt for me:

   $ sudo ldconfig

Now you should be good to go with Eclipse using the Unity Global Menu and The HUD working like a charm.

(Credit: elvisd blog)

As a workaround you can do

alias eclipse='UBUNTU_MENUPROXY=0;eclipse'

But this will mean that you have to launch Eclipse from a terminal. If you want to launch Eclipse from Unity Dash then you have to add

UBUNTU_MENUPROXY=0

as the first line in /usr/bin/eclipse.

This will show the file menu inside the application.

As @Geniedesalpages mentions, it's the interaction between eclipse events and the Unity menu. https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=330563

There should be updates to unity to allow eclipse to retain its old style menu bar.

PW

Create a file a bash script in the folder of Aptana/Eclipse and run the Aptana/Eclipse by this file.

#!/bin/bash
export UBUNTU_MENUPROXY=0
./AptanaStudio3