How can I make the Eclipse Oomph information browser visible?

Question

I am on Ubuntu 22.04 latest with Wayland with a stock standard latest Eclipse committer edition. I am trying to use Oomph, but find that most of the information is unreadable, due to fly-outs selecting specific colors or the ordering of panes.

I have changed theme and detail views on the OS and Eclipse level and pinned the colors for various dialogue types to now avail.

Before I file a bug, I would like to know if anyone has seen this effect. A bug DB search did not turn up any results.

Answer 1

This is due Eclipse playing poorly with Wayland.

export GDK_BACKEND=x11

before invoking Eclipse turns x11 back on. Here things work ok.

Here is the documentation of the GDK_BACKEND environment variable. It hints the Wayland renderer to use the Wayland implementation old X11 system.