When I work at home, I usually connect a monitor to my laptop, fire Eclipse, detach its console view and put it on that monitor. Of course, probability that I would forget to re-attach that view back to Eclipse window when I shut down the laptop is ~120%.
When I start the laptop again (without that extra display), eclipse starts and console view gets out of reach.
Is there a way to reach that view and put it on my laptop's display again (apart from reconnecting external monitor)?
If it is the only change that you made to the perspective you can go
Window -> Reset Perspective
If you customized your perspective though, this will lose those changes.
I would just save the perspectives you are using
Window -> Save Perspective As... -> "JavaEE CustomDualMon"
and
Window -> Save Perspective As... -> "JavaEE CustomSingleMon"
I have not tried what it will do when it is not visible but it might help:
press Alt + Shift + Q and C right after (that shortcut opens console view)
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I am using Eclipse Oxygen (Ver 4.7.0) on CentOS with the UI shown via MobaXterm's X Windows server on Windows 7.
In Eclipse I have the weird problem that when I right-click on an editor tab the tab closes immediately! No context menu, nothing, just the tab vanishes. I would like to disable this, but I couldn't find any entry for right-clicking in the Keys section of the Preferences.
Is there another place where the right-click behaviour is set? Or how else can I disable this? The problem occurs only for editor tabs.
Additional details:
The right-click behaves correctly inside an editor tab by bringing up the context menu. This shows that the right-click is not genearlly broken in the X Window system.
The right-click behaves correctly in other X applications like PyCharm.
An explanation
A closer look revealed that Eclipse does show the context menu on right-click press-down, but on right-click release-up it registers a left-click event.
Due to the particular situation of when the context menu was drawn, the mouse pointer than just always happens to sit over the top entry in the menu. And this top entry is Close. The following screenshot might illustrate this a bit (unfortunately without the mouse pointer):
Solution
The immediate solution for me is to move the mouse after pressing the right mouse button and before releasing it.
Still I don't know why this happens only when right-clicking a tab and only for me - and probably not for many other people...
When I start Eclipse I get nothing. Not a single view. Similar to my previous question here except that now I have absolutely nothing at all. I don't have a menu to be able to even select window -> New Window or window -> reset perspective. The screen is completely other then the application running in my taskbar.
I'm running Ubuntu 14.04 and Eclipse Kepler. Since yesterday I've been experiencing a strange issue: when I open up Eclipse, all that I'm seeing is the menu bar on the upper Ubuntu bar. No code editor, window whatsoever.
In order to see a window I go to Window -> New window, but this is just a workaround. It starts up a new window with no preferences set, no last edited files etc. Moreover it shows that I have 2 Eclipse windows opened, while I can only see 1.
Any ideas on how to fix that?
I agree with Gorka, it looks like it was related with window size.
Here my solution (worked for me on Ubuntu 14.04):
1) Switch to Eclipse so that menu header is visible (you can use Alt+Tab or click on Eclipse icon in the list of applications)
2) Press Ctrl+Super+ArrowUp (Super=Windows button usually between Ctrl and Alt)
This combination maximizes active window, so it restores Eclipse to full screen.
Go to Window -> Show Toolbar. That should fix your issue.
Edit: Also try Window -> Close All Perspectives. Now, Window -> Open Perspective -> Other... and select Java (default).
I had exactly the same problem, the only solution I could find was to download the newest Eclipse version from www.eclipse.org instead of from the Ubuntu repository.
I had the same issue and I've found out what was happening:
The problem was that the size of the eclipse window had been reduced to the minimum, see my desktop in http://i.imgur.com/lTlgOvb.jpg and notice the small vertical line in the top-left corner. This small line is the eclipse window, so just go with the cursor and make the it bigger.
I had exactly the same problem happening on only one workspace I had setup within Eclipse. I pressed some keyboard shortcut to make it happen but didn't know what that shortcut was (fat fingers meant I pressed a key I didn't mean to) and now can't reverse it! All other workspaces loaded up fine.
Managed to resolve it by Clicking on Window -> New Window!
I was having the same issue and got to fix it by just maximizing the windows (window button + up arrow key).. lol
stupid, but worked.
I use dual monitor for work and I prefer to have the editor on my main screen while the rest of eclipse in my laptop monitor.
However, when I open a new file, that is. I open a file with Cmd-Shift-R, files are opened in my laptop monitor as opposed to the editor that I dragged to my main screen.
I find this mildly annoying. Any ideas?
Are using the Window -> New Window feature? In that case it depends on which window you're working on at the time you press Ctrl+Shift+R.
However, if you're streching only one Eclipse window along both monitors, then the Open Resource dialog will be opened in your "monitor number 1" (and that depends on your graphic configuration: Laptop+Main or Main+Laptop).
I found easier to avoid the new window menu and just to drag those views out of eclipse. This creates a secondary window but the project explorer is linked to the old window so double click will open the file on the main window.
I recommend to save everything as a new perspective that I usually call "Java 2 Windows". This way I can change perspectives when I do not have an auxiliar screen.
P.S. Just avoid closing the auxiliar window when leaving eclipse.
Is there a function that would arrange windows in Eclipse into state that was previously saved?
I always resize windows (Package Explorer, panels with views etc.) based on current needs and then I have to put it back.
Maximizing and minimizing is great but this would be really a killer feature. A click to arrange windows to the desired state would be perfect
You can save your Perspective how you like it and then when that Perspective gets loaded it will come back to the saved state:
Window > Save Perspective As...
To reset:
Window > Reset Perspective...
Click on windows > Perspective > Reset Perspective
Open new window it will set a default view for eclipse
window->new window