Eclipse: multiple monitors / positioning of dialogs

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I'm trying to setup Eclipse for two monitors (a 1600×1200). I have one big desktop spanning over both monitors. Eclipse places some dialogs (CTRL+3) exactly centered on my desktop, this means that one half of the dialog is on the left monitor, the other one on the right one.

When I move the dialog, close it, and open it again, the last position isn't remembered by Eclipse. Any way around this issue? Or is there a plugin, which helps to open all dialogs not centered, but placed with an offset to the left / right?

Thanks.

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It depends on what exact dialogs you are talking about.

Dialogs can remember their last position since Eclipse3.2: bug 111530 and bug 33550. Different dialogs now remember their positions: bug 108801:

If other dialogs don't work correctly, a new bug report is in order.

Regarding the "Quick Access" (CTRL+3) dialog the OP is actually referring to, he comments:

Finally found the simple solution:
In the upper right corner is a small triangle, which opens a a context menu, with the desired entry "remember position".

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For Visual Studio 2010, there is now a patch that takes care of this and other problems with the find window's size and placement:

VS10-KB2268081-x86

http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/KB2268081/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=4766

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The three most influential factors for Eclipse speed are:

Using the latest version of Eclipse (2020-06 as on 26 June 2020)
Note that David Balažic's comment (July 2014) contradicts that criteria which was working six years ago:

The "same" workspace in Indigo (3.7.2) SR2 loads in 4 seconds, in Kepler SR2 (4.3.2) in 7 seconds and in Luna (4.4.0) in 10 seconds. All are Java EE bundles. Newer versions have more bundled plugins, but still the trend is obvious. (by "same" workspace I mean: same (additionally installed) plugins used, same projects checked out from version control).

Launching it with the latest JDK (Java 14 at the time of writing, which does not prevent you to compile in your Eclipse project with any other JDK you want: 1.4.2, 1.5, 1.6 older...)
```
  -vm jdk1.6.0_10\jre\bin\client\jvm.dll
```
Configuring the eclipse.ini (see this question for a complete eclipse.ini)
```
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  -Xmx4096m
  [...]
```

The Xmx argument is the amount of memory Eclipse will get (in simple terms). With -Xmx4g, it gets 4 GB of RAM, etc.

Note:

Referring to the jvm.dll has advantages:

Splash screen coming up sooner.
Eclipse.exe in the process list instead of java.exe.
Firewalls: Eclipse wants access to the Internet instead of Java.
Window management branding issues, especially on Windows and Mac.

Dec. 2020, Udo conforms in the comments

From version 4.8 (Photon) an up there was a steady speed gain after each version.
The main platform was optimized every release to load faster, enable more features for the dark theme and to add more features for newer Java versions for the Java development tools.
Especially with-in the last 3 versions the startup time was increased a lot. There should be a significant increase in start-up time with the newest version of Eclipse 2020-12.

In my experience it started a lot faster with each new version.
But: There are still plug-ins which do not follow the new way of using the Eclipse API and are therefore still slow to start.
Since the change to Java 11 as the minimum runtime version starting from Eclipse version 2020-09 at least the core system uses the newer features of the JVM. It is up to the providers of the other plug-ins to upgrade to newer APIs and to use the full power of modern CPUs (e.g. concurrent programming model).

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