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...
It closes automatically after 2-3 seconds if there is no activity. Sometimes it is not enough time to read method/object documentation.
I'm using Eclipse version: Photon Release (4.8.0) and working with java project.
If you click in the java doc window it changes to a window which stays open until you press Esc or click outside the window.
It also has a tool bar at the bottom with some extra options.
I just installed Eclipse from the Android website and the dialogs have no title bar and seem to be docked at the top of the Eclipse main window. I can't find a way to move them or get the titlebar back. I'm using Gnome 3 as desktop/window manager.
For example, if I choose Search | File... from the main menu, it comes up, but without titlebar. If I press Alt+F7, I can move the entire window, but the dialog will not move relative to the window.
How do I fix this?
Thx.
You are missing an important information, your operating system and desktop environment. Let me guess? Linux/Gnome? Or Cinnamon?
Gnome has the, erm, great feature to attach modal dialogs at the main window.
You can install dconf-editor and set the key org/gnome/shell/overrides/attach-modal-dialogs to false.
In Cinnamon you can easily disable this feature in the System Settings > Windows > Attach dialog windows (may not be the actual text as I translated it from my locale). You need to switch the settings to Expert mode to see the Windows entry.
It often happens to me that I want to clear the current output window by using the context menu, but instead of hitting the Clear entry, I accidently hit the Close entry (which is directly below Clear).
How can I get that output window back!?
Via Window/Output/Output I only get the container tab for all output windows. How can I reopen the output window of a currently running application?
Here is solution
First go to service window which is next tab to project tab...
then right click on apache tomcat
click view server log and view server output
In the right bottom edge there are information about NetBeans updates. Left to it, there's the tasks running (building, running application etc). Click on it, right click the process you want and select Show Output.
try Window--> Reset Windows in netbean
Caution: be aware, that all your windows settings are away after that!
I had this same issue recently and none of the other fixes worked. I got it to show finally by switching to the "Services" tab, right-clicking on "Apache Tomcat or TomEE" and clicking "Restart".
Go to the window tab: Then click on Output. This will allow you to place it anywhere on the screen. Or just use ctrl+4
Go to Server tab and Right Click you will see the View Output Log.
Netbeans --> Your Server --> RightClick --> View Output
In NetBeans 7.4,
Under Window menu, click on "Reset Window".
Then NetBeans will disappear and reappear.
At last, after it reappears, click on "Output" under Window menu.
Go to window tab - reset windows - run your program. - then right click on bottom of the tab where program running
Right click on Apache Tomcat under Services window. Stop the server, then start it again...both log and output window will reappear
Just go through "View" and select IDE Log. it will show the output.
If you run the server in normal mode you can recover the log by restarting the main project in debug mode. It seems that NB opens a new server log when the server run mode changes.
If you want to see three windows along with Log
Then go to windows on NetBeans then output and click NetBeans->windows->output.
Next go to service next to you project select server right click on it select server log and server output NetBeans->service(next to you project)->server->View server log and view service output.
I was having the same problem. Currently I am using the version 8.1, First of all go to the window tab, that is just before the tab help. Click on window and there click reset "Reset Window", after that in the bottom right click on the tab where your project runs, right click and select show output.
shorter way:
1-Alt + Shift + R
2-Ctrl + 4
second way:(in menus of netBeans)
1-go to window tab
2-go to IDE tools
3-click on Test Result
4-again in window tab click on Output
I found output option in window Menu.
in Netbeans 7.4 try Window -> Output OR Ctrl + 4
Easy way, just write some wrong code and Run > Build it will show the error in output window.
I tried all of the above but no success, just this one worked.
Servers---AT---right click---start in debugging mode
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.