Minizinc IDE does not open anymore - minizinc

I am using Minizinc IDE (the latest version) on Windows 10. I have been using it for a time and everything was fine. All of a sudden, when I wanted to open Minizinc IDE, it shows that it is open in the taskbar, but the IDE windows does not appear! when I hover the mouse over the icon in the taskbar, it shows a white rectangle! I waited for an hour and no change, restarted my PC, uninstalled Minizinc software, and re-installed it again, but none of these have helped! Any suggestions?

Their might be a problem with your search path. Or some dynamic link libararies (DLL) might be missing or hidden.
You could try a dependency checker like https://github.com/lucasg/Dependencies to find and solve the problem.
Start at file "...\MiniZinc\MiniZincIDE.exe"
Here are the dependencies listed on my Windows 10 PC:

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How can I get Eclipse IDE to default to "Selected lines" in the Find/Replace dialogue when multiple lines are selected?

When working in Eclipse and hitting Ctrl+F with lines of code selected, the default behavior I expect is for the Find/Replace dialogue to open with the "Selected lines" option and, perhaps, either buffer contents or a previous search query in the "Find" prompt. On my home machine, what happens instead is the entire selection gets automatically copied to the "Find" prompt and Scope is reset to "All" instead of "Selected lines" every time.
I somehow do have this working by default on my work machine: "Selected Lines" scope option is chosen automatically when more than one line is selected in the editor.
Possibly unrelated: I do have CDT installed and I work mostly with C++ in Eclipse. Home machine is running Ubuntu 18.10, work machine is running Ubuntu 18.04.
I tried:
Re-downloading Eclipse, reinstalling CDT & cmake4eclipse
Changing to a new Workspace in Eclipse (without copying settings)
Searching high and low online for recipes on how to control this.
How do I change the IDE at home to the desired "Selected Lines" behavior?
[Edit 1 hour later]: I am now almost convinced the issue has to do with the Ubuntu version somehow. I'm running 18.04 on my Laptop (same as my work computer) and I just upgraded CDT & Eclipse Platform to latest stable versions (9.7 and 4.11/2019-03, respectively), which I have everywhere else. The new "wrong" behavior didn't appear. I will also start a thread on the Eclipse forums or perhaps even open a bug report. I don't want to reinstall the whole system or downgrade it (slim chance of success) just to get this back; if it's an Eclipse bug, I'd rather work on fixing it.
[Edit 2 days later] The bug did not manifest on a fresh install of Ubuntu 18.10. I still have no idea what was different on the 'culprit' machine. I ended up wiping the drive and reinstalling 18.04 on the same machine and the problem went away.

Eclipse Neon.3 fails to launch after install

I've installed Eclipse Neon.3 on my windows 7 machine, after the install process has finished, the installer has an option to 'launch now', which I do and the IDE boots up and works as expected.
However when I close eclipse and then reopen it, I get a crash which prevents it from booting up (sorry for this being a picture, but there doesn't seem to be an easy way to copy the text):
The version I've installed is Release 4.6.3, and the build ID is 20170314. I've installed and removed it 3 times and observed the same behaviour each time. I've tried doing a reset between boots and installs. I've also tried inspecting my environment variables, which look like this:
JAVA_HOME:C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_91
PATH: %PATH%;%JAVA_HOME%\jre\bin
Is this a known issue, or do I have something wrong in my setup? Prior to this I discovered 4 versions of the jre/jdk on my machine, and two versions of eclipse. I think I have correctly removed all but the one referenced from my java home, and I entirely removed eclipse and downloaded the latest version (neon.3).
I've fixed the issue, and whilst I'm still not entirely sure why it was a problem, here is how I fixed it.
I opened a terminal and ran 'java -version' (I should have done this first). It was failing to find java.exe, despite the bin folder being on the path. Running this revealed that it was actually calling a shortcut to java.exe found in 'c /programdata/oracle/java/javapath/' which pointed to a now non existent version of java.
So long story short, if you have a similar problem, check if you have shortcuts in the folder 'c /programdata/oracle/java/javapath/java.exe' and ensure they point to the correct program.

eclipse - swt - using windowbuilder in xfce env

I have some problems with eclipse indigo x64 Linux; The problem is using windowbuilder (the SWT); I tried using gwt or swing but they both cause either windowbuilder freeze or even eclipse crash...
The alike issue it seems I found related info in official eclipse indigo offline Help which says :
How can I prevent the preview window from flashing under Linux using Metacity
In order to create the graphics that you see in the design view,
WindowBuilder Pro creates an off screen window containing the various
widgets and they takes a screen snapshot of them. This works very well
under Windows, OSX and some versions of Linux. Recent versions of the
Metacity window manager (more recent than 2.1.4), however, have been
modified/"fixed" to disallow windows to be opened off screen. This
forces the preview window to appear on screen leading to an annoying
flashing effect any time you make a change. The solution is to disable
the Metacity "fully_onscreen" constraint by patching the Metacity
source code and rebuilding and installing the patched version into
your system.
Here are the steps to follow:
Download the Metacity source code from ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/metacity/
Unpack the source code tarball into any temporary directory.
Chdir into this directory (with the unpacked code).
Find window.c file and open it with your favourite texteditor.
Find a line with "window->require_fully_onscreen = TRUE;"
Replace it with "window->require_fully_onscreen = FALSE;"
Save the changes and close the editor.
Open a terminal and chdir into the directory with the source code (nice if you have already done this)
Run "./configure".
Run "make all".
Make sure that steps 9 & 10 completed without errors.
Become root (or execute the next command via "sudo" depending on the Linux you are running)
Run "make install" (or "sudo make install").
Save your work and close any application you are working with.
End your session (or press Ctrl-Alt-Delete to restart the x-server) and log in again.
You are done!
well seems like I have the snapshot really but, as I can get it, the snapshot doesn't want to dispose or similar so I have either resize the whole eclipse or press F5 to refresh (which works not at once);
I am not sure how to fix the issue in case I have xfce+adwaita installed? I don't have metacity installed; Seems like xfce works with gtk instead of metacity (correct me if I am wrong);
So my question is... how to fix the "window flashing or freezing" if I have :
xfce4
adwaita-dark theme
linux arch x64ce
Thanks
Try to install install libswt-gtk-3-jni and libswt-gtk-3-java.

WindowBuilder Pro – Incorrect display of content pane and element frames in the design view

I need some help with following problem:
Problem:
In the design view frames that appear around selected Swing-elements are not displayed at their correct positions. Also the content pane is not located at its right position inside the window (JFrame). It seems no matter whether layout is used (e. a. BorderLayout, GroupLayout).
For example, the frame of a selected button is display many pixels above or beside the button. In this case, if you want to select a GUI component by clicking it with your courser you should not click on the graphical representation of that element but some pixels above or where ever the frame could be – you have to consider the offset of the shifting.
By nearly every refresh of the design view (F5) or if you shift some components in the content pane the offset of the wrong placed frames changes for some pixels – sometimes the frames are above, sometimes below or beside.
Are there other persons with this problem?
Are there persons that don‘t have these problems with WindowBuilder Pro with Ubuntu 12.04?
What could cause this error and how it might be solved?
System environment under which the error occurs:
One desktop PC / One laptop
Ubuntu 12.04 (with Unity) / Kubuntu 12.04 (with KDE)
Oracle Java 7
Eclipse 64 Bit:
Eclipse 4.3 Java EE / Eclipse 4.3 Standard / Eclipse 4.3 Modeling Tools
Installed under „/opt/eclipse“. The error occurs, no matter whether the folders belong to root or to normal user.
WindowBuilder Pro 1.6.0 (Eclipse plugin installed with eclipse software manager)
I also tried WindowBuilder Pro in Ubuntu 13.04 in VirtualBox. But as soon I am moving the mouse on the palette eclipse crashes.
Hints:
The error seems to occur only, if the content pane is not correctly positioned inside the window (JFrame). Sometimes the content pane is out of place by a few dozen pixels, sometimes it is as wide as the JFrame itself, sometimes it is little bigger than the window.
The error does not occur with Windwos 7 and with Xubuntu 13.04 under otherwise identical conditions (I did not tested Xubuntu 12.04). But the error occures with Ubuntu 12.04 and Kubuntu 12.04.
My workaround is to use WindowBuilder Pro with Xubuntu 13.04 installed in VirtualBox. Of course this can not be a permanent solution, because I want to continue to use Ubuntu 12.04 LTS.
I have read http://help.eclipse.org/indigo/index.jsp?topic=%2Forg.eclipse.wb.doc.user%2Fhtml%2Ffaq.html.
Here the same problem is described, but there are no answers: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15818379/windowbuilder-eclipse-away-from-the-actual-component?rq=1
Here a possible workaround is descibed: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=417224
I have been using Eclipse on Ubuntu for a while. I used both Eclipse Juno and Kepler on Ubuntu 12.04, 12.10, 13.04, 13.10, and 14.04. This error was there on all of those. I am used to living with it. I did not do a through research on that though.
I'm also having some other minor problems. One for example: The toolbars do not update themselves correctly. The buttons on the toolbar are not rendered, and they show up when the mouse hovers on it.
I found out that Eclipse is no as stable on Linux as it is on Windows.
I hope they post fixes on these issues soon.
I am using Ubuntu 15.04 and running Eclipse mars, I thought i was the only one with this problem but it has become a major issue! We can't keep running to virtual machines! There is a reason we ran away from windows to linux!! I have tried following up on some peoples discussions about how they solved their issues but apparently they don't seem to work, they added these lines to the eclipse.ini file
-Dorg.eclipse.swt.internal.gtk.cairoGraphics=false
-Dorg.eclipse.swt.internal.gtk.useCairo=false
Some people claim it has worked for them but others including me didn't find it usefull! Try it, maybe it will work for you

Can't run eclipse on netbook MSi wind! HELP

I just got this MSI wind netbook and tried to run eclipse on it. I installed JDK6 on the netbook already. Whenever I open eclipse there is nothing show up on the screen except a "warning sound" that alerts. What is the problem here?
ps.I just started learning java.
Most likely the Eclipse starter program can't find where you installed Java. Since Eclipse is a Java program, it needs a JRE installed (comes with the JDK typically) to run. Assuming you're running Windows on your MSI Wind, check to make sure the java executable is on your path in your computer environment settings (windows key + printscreen button, or windows key + pause button are the shortcuts to open the computer properties dialog if I remember correctly. Then go to advanced).
You can test if java is on the path by opening a cmd.exe shell window and typing 'java'. If it says it cannot find java, then you need to fix the path.
See this link for additional troubleshooting details: http://www.eclipsezone.com/eclipse/forums/t99010.html
You could try reinstalling the JDK. Perhaps having it on a different disk than the default (D: versus C:) is causing some trouble? It certainly isn't a problem with the hardware, I'm running Eclipse on Windows on an MSI Wind.
Use "Add/Remove programs" in the control panel to remove the java versions you have installed.
Then visit "java.com" and use it to install Java, and verify that it is working. You do not need more than that to use Eclipse.