eclipse hacks

Install Debian packages

• libgtk-3-dev
• libgnomevfs2-dev
• libgnomeui-dev

Clone

$ git clone --recursive https://github.com/mdavidsaver/eclipse-tricks.git

Building SWT C libraries from source

Use when libraries fail to load. May also help with random SIGSEGV due to ABI problems with pre-compiled libraries.

$ ./build-swt.sh
$ rm /eclipse/dir/configuration/org.eclipse.osgi/375/0/.cp/*.so
$ cp result-swt/*.so /eclipse/dir/configuration/org.eclipse.osgi/375/0/.cp/

Building Eclipse launcher from source

Fix eclipse bug #386995 with openFile on multi-user linux and/or remote X.

https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=386995

$ ./build-launcher.sh
$ cp result-launcher/eclipse_*.so /eclipse/dir/plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.gtk.linux.*/