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Bug 490750

Summary:	Ubuntu Unity: After opening Git commit overview, then switching to another window outside Eclipse, and then back, Eclipse becomes unusable
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Ivan Matavulj <matavulj>
Component:	SWT	Assignee:	Platform-SWT-Inbox <platform-swt-inbox>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	akurtakov, ericwill, loskutov
Version:	4.5	Keywords:	triaged
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux
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Description Ivan Matavulj

2016-03-31 03:20:46 EDT

After opening Git commit overview window in Eclipse, and then,with the popup still showing, switching to another window outside Eclipse , and then back to Eclipse, the Git commit window is not presented again, but only the Eclipse main window, which is now unclickable. There is no way to switch back to Git commit popup window. I need to restart the IDE.

This is probably due to Ubuntu (14.04) Unity window manager (default one) that I am using, but probably still be worth visiting from Eclipse side.

Thanks.

Comment 1 Andrey Loskutov

2016-03-31 03:34:12 EDT

Can you please try to reproduce it with the latest 4.6 integration build?
Also can you please try to check if using GTK2 "fixes" the problem: you have to set SWT_GTK3=0 env. variable before starting Eclipse.

Comment 2 Alexander Kurtakov

2016-04-15 13:49:18 EDT

In gnome shell one can use ctrl+tab to switch to background dialogs like that. Check Unity docs for similar shortcut.

Comment 3 Alexander Kurtakov

2016-04-15 13:50:53 EDT

BTW not reproducible on Fedora 24 so most probably a Unity bug and totally not related to Gtk2 port.

Comment 4 Eric Williams

2018-06-29 15:46:13 EDT

Unity isn't even around any more on the latest Ubuntu 18.04, so I'm going to mark this one as WONTFIX.