Eclipse auto shutdowns when creating new project

Solution 1:

I had the same issue as well on Kubuntu 14.10. I wasn't even able to change the theme under System Preferences -> Application Appearance because eclipse crashed as soon as I tried to click "Application Appearance".

But editing the gtkrc file under /usr/share/themes/oxygen-gtk/gtk-2.0/ as explained in https://stackoverflow.com/questions/26436009/eclipse-luna-crashes-on-new-project-in-ubuntu finally did the trick. Change this line:

 GtkComboBox::appears-as-list = 1

to:

 GtkComboBox::appears-as-list = 0

Solution 2:

I had the same issue and it turned out to be due to oxygen-gtk theme. After choosing a different gtk theme (QtCurve neither work), I've seen no more crashes. On KDE, you can change these settings on System Preferences -> Application Appearance -> GTK . Changing GTK2 theme is enough.