I just hate Eclipse

Posted by admin, Tue Dec 05 14:17:20 UTC 2006

Work on a Mac notebook.  Plug in to an external monitor with a higher native resolution than your notebook screen.  While Eclipse is maximized to fill your external monitor, close it.  Unplug external monitor.  Start Eclipse again.  See the magic of having a window that is maximized, on all sides, beyond the edges of your screen.  Enjoy the dysfunction, because it cannot be fixed.  You cannot get to any menu or screen edge, which will allow you to resize or move the window.

After you’ve pulled sufficient hair out trying to fix this, hopefully you’ve Googled for a solution, and found this page.  You can’t resize your “too large” Eclipse window, but you can wack the wonky settings by closing Eclipse, deleting this file, and letting Eclipse regenerate it when you restart:

.../workspace/.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.ui.workbench/workbench.xml

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  1. Ralph 12.12.06 / 12PM
    Wondering - on the Mac, is there a keyboard shortcut that will allow you to move a window with the arrow keys? It's a useful thing in Windoze (Alt-space, M) when Outhouse decides to open your next window with the menu bar off the screen on a dual monitor system.
  2. lori 12.19.06 / 02AM
    Not AFAIK see. I know about the Windows feature. It was a very important feature in the early days of Windoze, when every new mouse needed a custom driver install. So if you couldn't operate without the mouse, you couldn't get your new mouse installed. Also a very handy feature when you remote desktop into a dual-head system, and the application you need to use opens on the monitor that you can't see. Anyway, I'll have to do more research. I'm finding it hard to believe that this feature doesn't exist on the Mac.

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