Some buttons in Eclipse 3.5 under Ubuntu 9.10 won’t work but short cut key works. It’s because SWT eclipse uses have some problem with the underlying GTK.

Also this will be fixed in eclipse 3.5.2, the is a work around for those older 3.5 releases. Write a simple shell script to start eclipse:

#!/bin/sh
export GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS=1
~/bin/eclipse

Replace "~/bin/eclipse" with your eclipse path.

Haven’t tried Ubuntu for almost 2 years since I installed Ubuntu 6 on my desktop PC. I upgraded my hard driver to 160G last week thus there’s enough space to install a Ubuntu beside Vista. So I got Ubuntu 8.04 “Hardy Heron” installed.

The installation was quite straight forward and didn’t change to much. But the usability is much batter than v6. My wireless connection was successfully configured and connected. NTFS partitions were well supported. With additional codec installed, all of my musics and movies were played smoothly – even my iPod was recognized which was a big surprise to me. And the compz stuff is just awesome:

I think I will spend more time on linux than Vista from now on. Howday(again*-*) open source!