Eclipse 3.1.1 on FreeBSD 6.0: weird window sizes, empty dialog

[Sean McNeil]

On Fri, 2005-11-18 at 16:45 +0100, gwk at rahn-koltermann.de wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I just installed FreeBSD 6.0-R and tried compiling Eclipse 3.1.1 from ports (i.e.
> I used the HEAD version of the Eclipse port on top of an installed 6.0-R).  I used
> jdk15.
> 
> I had to build WITHOUT_CAIRO (no big deal).
> 
> The resulting Eclipse does work, but some status windows come up much too large.
> E.g. the progress bar during Eclipse startup is about 1000x800, maybe, when it
> should only be rather narrow, say 600x200.  There seems to be a general problem;
> the dialog for filtering build problems is also rather large ==>*and completely empty*.  That's true, the dialog is empty and I cannot enter anything :-(
> 
> Has anyone of you seen this before?  Would it likely be caused by running
> the HEAD version on an older GTK (6.0-R has gnome 2.10, head expects 2.12)?
> Or would it likely be caused by running Eclipse with jdk15?  I didn't compile
> jdk142 yet, it'll take some time...

Yes, this has been reported before.  I believe the solution was to
delete your ~/.eclipse.

Sean