Eclipse – When opening java files in Eclipse Juno, the editor seems to be minimised or hidden

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I've installed Eclipse Juno SR1 and switched to my old workspace. When I open a java file in the editor, it seems to be minimized (or hidden). The titlebar shows the current file and the outline displays all methods.

This is much as described in the Eclipse Invisible Editor, however, the suggested solution 'Window > Reset Perspective' does not work for me.

Any ideas on how I can get the editor back in the window?

I have the same problem with previous version of Eclipse Juno (not SR1).

Best Answer

"Windows" -> "New Window" seems to bring back the invisible editor view. Then just close the old one and restart eclipse to make sure it "remembers" the configuration.

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I think I just had the same problem and I solved it by switching the theme.

Go to Preferences -> General -> Appearance and switch to the Classic theme.

I can't understand why this helps, but it worked for me.

Update:

After being bitten by this again I checked again and as @anweibel says in his answer this can be edited in the CSS.

I just installed the E4 CSS editor plugin using the Eclipse Marketplace so that I could change the CSS directly from Eclipse under Preferences -> Apperance. I changed swt-mru-visible from false to true so that the relevant part for the GTK theme looked like this:

.MPartStack {
    font-size: 11;
    swt-simple: false;
    swt-mru-visible: true;
}

A restart was required for the changes to take effect.

More info can also be found here: Eclipse tabs repositionning

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Dock functionality is not available in Eclipse 4.2 - only in Eclipse 3.8

See comment #3 at https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=383599#c3

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