After changing the style from oxygen-gtk to QtCurve, my Eclipse is now running on steroids.
I'm using Eclipse Indigo 3.7.1 on Kubuntu 11.10 amd64 with Oracle JDK 1.6.0_26 and an NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS graphics adapter. I never used to have any issues on Kubuntu 10.04 LTS which is still running smoothly on another partition of my disk.
I had suspected the NVIDIA drivers, tried different JREs (including 32 bit versions) and Eclipse releases, none of which made a difference.
Finally, changing various configuration options by trial and error, I found out that
oxygen-gtk seemed to be the cause.To optimize your installation, install the
qtcurve package, and select it in K Menu | System Settings | Appearance | GTK+ Appearance | Widget Style. Then restart Eclipse and enjoy.
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I think it is the nvidia driver that is not accelerating something. I had the same problem here on my Mandriva 2011 box with their own theme. And as sooon as I opened a GTK app that used that theme X started to use all the CPU and all was repainting slowly. In the end I just tried the unthinkable and replaced the nvidia card (geforce 6800) with a slightly older radeon card and all of a sudden all was working just as it should. I sent the report to Nvidia a couple of weeks ago and hadn't had any answer from them yet. I'll have to see if the opensource nvidia drivers are also ok.
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