eclipse 3.0.1 [now 2] input problem

[Brian Willis]

Andrews, Dean (END-CHI) wrote:
> I currently use xwin as x server for emacs and ddd without problems.  We are
> looking at moving to eclipse.  When I try to run eclipse, it presents the
> splash, the first dialog box, and hangs.  
>  
> If I use Micro X-Win32 (4.1.7), eclipse will run fine on the same client.
> Since I do not have that software at home and X-Win has problems cut/paste
> between x and windows, I really would like to get xwin configured correctly
> for eclipse.
>  
> There where two unresolved threads dealing with this issue in this list:
> 
> *	From: "Joe Hughes" <jhughesjr at comcast dot net> 
> *	Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2005 10:26:49 -0400 
> *	Subject: Re: eclipse 3.0.1 input problem 
> 
> *	From: Alexander Gottwald <alexander dot gottwald at s1999 dot
> tu-chemnitz dot de> 
> *	Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 16:30:29 +0100 (MET) 
> *	Subject: Re: eclipse 3.0.1 input problem 
> *	References: <20050314141955.43564.qmail@web51106.mail.yahoo.com
> <http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin-xfree/2005-03/msg00069.html> > 
> 
>  
> Server:
> Windows XP Profesional Version 2002 
> Service Pack 2 
> AMD Athlon XP 2.33
> 1.00 GB ram
>  
> XWin.exe:  Release: 6.8.2.0-1
> via startxwin.bat (no other options)
>  
> Client:
> eclipse-SDK-3.0.2-solaris-motif
> SunOS ... 5.8 Generic_117350-13 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-4
>  
> Tunnel:
> SecureCRT  4.1.7 ssh2 with and without compression


We had some problems like that with eclipse.  The work around we found 
was to run window manager like openbox or windowmaker.  That seemed to 
solve the issue.
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