I am used to a caret being displayed on the left of the editor in myeclipse letting you fold a method, and a different caret next to //todo comments. I have a new machine with ubuntu 7.04, sun jdk 1.5.0_11, eclipse/myecilpse, and am not seeing any carets. They still function - I just cannot see them. Putting the cursor over the spot where they should be, the cursor changes, I click, the method folds/etc., the caret is just not visible. This is on a new/clean workspace.

I tried a new installation of ecilpse, without ME, and I have the same behavior. Any ideas?


Thanks,

Paul

Paul, I don't quite understand the use of caret here. Could you post a screenshot from a machine or screenshot you have that shows what you mean?

Do you mean that little plus/circle thing that folds/expands the section of code?

support-rkalla wrote:

Do you mean that little plus/circle thing that folds/expands the section of code?

That's exactly what I mean. This also applies to error markers, todo markers, etc. I am wondering if it has something to do w/ the GTK in ubuntu 7.04. Any other users w/ this version of ubuntu having this problem?

Paul,
This is my screenshot from Ubuntu that I've been testing the matisse issues on... so are you saying on your setup everything looks the same *except* you are missing all the little blue balls?

If you go to MyEclipse > Installation Summary > Installation Details, you sure MyEclipse is getting run with a Sun JRE/JDK right? (1.5.0_11 or later recommended)

Also is your setup of Ubuntu 64-bit by chance? Anything that would be worth noting? (video drivers, custom build of GTK, early build of Gutsy?)

The blue 'orbs', clipboard, light bulb are it - they are visible initially, but if I scroll the window at all, they disappear. Sometimes not entirely - looks like a painting issue. If I expand the window, they reappear. Likewise, if they're gone and the window is expanded, forcing a repaint by shrinking the window brings them back (until I do something w/ that window).

Regular Ubuntu 7.04, the only non-std thing I have are nvidia video drivers. I did download a copy of eclipse 3.2, and tried that with the same issues. Does your copy of ubuntu have all the updates?

The installation summary:

Code:

OS=Linux OS version=2.6.20-16-generic Java version=1.5.0_12 ... -vm /usr/lib/j2sdk1.5-sun/bin/../jre/lib/i386/client/libjvm.so

Thanks, Paul

Hmmm yea definately sounds like a rendering issue and the trick here is because SWT is a native widget toolkit, the issue is with how GTK is repainting itself, not Java here (unlike Swing where most repaint issues can be traced back to incorrect repaint calcaulations or buffering).

Yea my install of Ubuntu 7.04 is all default, with all updates applied. nothing fancy.

You could *try* running with Sun JDK 6 and see if it improved the situation... I'm not sure what it will do.

I just tried that JDK per your request on the matisse thread, with the same results. Bugger is right.

It gets promoted to "Urrrrggg!" now from Bugger.

I'm going to try and pull a few more Linux guys in on this tommorow, along with the Matisse issues. Everyone is out of the office at the moment.

The Wife wasn't looking for a few minutes so I put the 1.5 Sun JDK & Eclipse 3.3 base on her 7.04 machine, and the carets/markers worked great. The video drivers are the only difference between our two installs software wise, and that could be it for this problem. Gives me another direction to look in, thanks.

Paul

Paul nice job, atleast got a new culprit to look at.

NVidia just released 100.14.19 yesterday, and that fixed this problem. Thanks again.

Woot! Glad to hear it. I love it when it's something simple like that.