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Buttons840
Buttons840

Reputation: 9647

How do I stop "pop-up perspectives" in Eclipse?

It seems like half the actions I perform in Eclipse open up a new perspective, thus covering up the beautifully arranged perspective I've created. It feels like I'm back in 1998 fighting all these "pop-up perspectives."

Is there a way to prevent new perspectives from opening automatically in Eclipse? Is there a universal setting that controls this (?) or will I have to change plugin specific settings?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 299

Answers (2)

E-Riz
E-Riz

Reputation: 33024

The Team Synchronize perspective switching can be disabled via Preferences > Team (the option is "Open the associated perspective when..."

I'm pretty sure the default choice is Prompt unless you change it at some point in the prompt dialog.

Upvotes: 1

Zoltán Ujhelyi
Zoltán Ujhelyi

Reputation: 13858

There are two preference settings that might help your issue (but not completely solve it):

  1. Preferences -> General -> Perspectives: Open the associated perspective when creating a project
  2. Preferences -> Run/Debug -> Perspectives: Open the associated perspective when launching and Open the associated perspective when the application suspends

However, if you turn down the perspective switches, then you might have to manually switch to the Debug perspective while debugging. That switch makes sense to me, as during debugging I seldom want to traverse the code by the package structure but by the types of the variables and the stack trace. In other words, some switching makes sense (to me at least).

Upvotes: 2

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