Eclipse Start Up Problem.

Newbie & Debugging Questions
#1

Hey Everyone, I have a 2 pictures below showing what my problem is but ill explain anyway. When i open up eclipse from my taskbar it opens right. Prompting me to choose a workspace. As you can see from picture 1. if i choose my workspace it closes the eclipse tab and opens Eclipse Java EE IDE, as you can see from picture 2. I know this really isn’t a big problem but its just annoying the hell out of me for a while. Could someone maybe help. Thanks

Picture 1:

http://s17.postimg.org/ulkceor7z/image1.png

Picture 2:

http://s9.postimg.org/k9ba37o33/image2.png

  • GlennBrann
#2

Err you see that checkbox on picture 1 right? check it and it’ll magically disappear.

#3

He meant the Windows 8 Eclipse icon on the bottom bar is different once Eclipse is launched.

#4

What the… :persecutioncomplex:

  1. read his post.
  2. if you’re right, it’s no sense to put picture 1 as unrelated.
  3. based on my latest experience with Windows 7, the position of window, of application that pinned on taskbar, will stay same when opened. So I guess that’s different application.
  4. if you’re right, it is not annoying behavior but strange phenomena.
#5

Is this your bug? https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=314805

I’ve seen this behaviour before, but sadly I can’t remember exactly how I fixed it. It seems like Window’s handling of pinned icons is a bit of a hack - basically it’s just going off the spawned process, so if that changes, it gets a new icon and looses it’s connection to the original pinned icon.

For me it seemed to trigger when I upgraded from one major eclipse release to another with the auto update mechanism. Something in there meant it was triggering a different exe/process before, which windows couldn’t handle.

I think I basically solved it by doing a clean install rather than the upgraded build. That’s not hugely convenient though. :frowning:

#6

Ok guys, the first image isn’t a full screenshot of my window. I mean the eclipse icon not the window icon

#7

Yes! this is the problem i am having. So its a bug. Ok ill work on it