Eclipse button clicks in Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic)

Since upgrading to Ubuntu 9.10, I found that some buttons in Eclipse can't be mouse clicked any more. It's usually possible to click them using the space bar, but...

Many thanks to moma for posting a solution on Launchpad!

Start eclipse with
$ cd eclipse
$ export GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS=true
$ ./eclipse

Or use this one liner:
$ GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS=true $HOME/eclipse/eclipse

German Keyboard, VMWare, Ubuntu host

There are lots of things that can go wrong with this.

The most helpful hints I could find were here and here.

Following this advice, I edited my ~/.vmware/config file to look like this:

xkeymap.nokeycodeMap = true
xkeymap.keysym.ISO_Level3_Shift = 0x138
xkeymap.keysym.braceleft = 0x1a
xkeymap.keysym.braceright = 0x1b

I think the second line is the most important for my German keyboard, as it maps the AltGr key.