====== Eclipse Luna speed up and fix flickering ====== I used to work with Indigo and it was pretty good, but once in a while it's important to upgrade to have some new features so I was forced to install Luna. **First huge problem**\\ Try to move the editor tabs: everything disappear. The entire Window turn to gray (on Windows some experience it as black) **Second problem**\\ A lot of flickering everywhere, even on other windows not Eclipse related (e.g file manager, pluma, etc.). **Third problem**\\ Slow, slow slow. My i7 workstation can't scroll the editor properly. What do they expecty me to use? A Cray-X Mainframe?8-O When I use the down arrow, it's so slow that the keys are queued and I can't figure out when depressing the key to stop where I want to. **Solution** Make a bash script like this one: #!/bin/bash export SWT_GTK3=0 export UBUNTU_MENUPROXY=0 cd /opt/eclipse ./eclipse -showlocation edit the launch icon of Eclipse to use that script instead of eclipse directly. Try it. No more flickering and good speed is back! **FIX the theme**\\ With the above modifications the gtk menu will look a bit messy. To fix it, go in **window->preferenced->general->appearance** and set **classic theme** and that's it!