I just downloaded and try to run Eclipse Kepler on Ubuntu 13.10. If I run Eclipse with command
./eclipse
Eclipse runs, but very weird :(
Nut if I run with the command
sudo ./eclipse
everything runs fine. But I don't want to sudo. Please help me.
As I can't flag this question as a duplicate of this question. I'm lifting the answer for completeness sake (with some reformatting).
This bug has been confirmed in Ubuntu 13.10.
In order to overcome problem, you have to change your eclipse.desktop file in part of Exec passing env UBUNTU_MENUPROXY with the Eclipse path and Eclipse will be runnable from the launcher with a functional menu bar.
Here is pattern for changing eclipse.desktop file:
Exec=env UBUNTU_MENUPROXY= path/to/eclipse
If you change the Exec line in the Eclipse.desktop file you don't need to write it manually every time. In my case I found that there were three versions of eclipse.desktop file. I had to change all of them to make it work.
There are two versions in /usr/share/applications:
eclipse.desktop
Eclipse.desktop
Either delete one of them, or change the Exec line in both of them as described above. The third version is in the home folder:
~/.local/share/applications/Eclipse.desktop
You can either delete this last one or change the Exec line in this one too.
All you have to do is change the Exec line as follows:
Exec=env UBUNTU_MENUPROXY= /path/to/eclipse/eclipse
[Desktop Entry] Version=1.0 Name=Eclipse Exec=env UBUNTU_MENUPROXY= eclipse Terminal=false Icon=/opt/eclipse/icon.xpm Type=Application Categories=IDE;Development X-Ayatana-Desktop-Shortcuts=NewWindow [NewWindow Shortcut Group] Name=New Window Exec=env UBUNTU_MENUPROXY= eclipse TargetEnvironment=Unity
it will work certainly... enjoy java coding..on ubuntu 13.10
