About Ubuntu 16-4 install eclipse vary slow and all over, it was a bug,it takes me for half day, I had to Reback Fictx

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Eclipse is working as good as anything on 14.04. I did a clean install of 16.04 and installed Eclipse. But it runs a Java program only once after which it just hangs during subsequent attempts before I remove and reinstall it . I have tried many things, since in the beginning I needed CDT as well. Right now, I just want to remove everything related to eclipse and does a fresh install (remove all the configs and Dependen cies). Please note this I used Eclipse installer to install Eclipse and the Eclipse icon image are also not appearing (the default Ubuntu? is appearing). Eclipse 16.04 ShareImprove this question Asked Apr at 3:55Ankur Lathwal10615

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I had something the same with 16.04 and Eclipse Mars. I thought it had frozen but in fact it is running very, very slowly. The problem is the version of the GTK + 3, shipped with 16.04. Fortunately the solution is very easy. Open a terminal and then type export SWT_GTK3=0 , then start Eclipse from the terminal. If that works, then a more persistent fix was to put the 2 lines in italics below into eclipse.ini : --launcher.GTK_version2 Before the line: --launcher.appendVmargs The bug is filed with Ubuntu at Bug 1552764

About Ubuntu 16-4 install eclipse vary slow and all over, it was a bug,it takes me for half day, I had to Reback Fictx