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  1. Bug #83779
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Comment 2 for bug 83779

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Rebecca Blyth (rebecca-blyth) wrote : Re: vmargs in eclipse.ini ignored

This one's just caught me out. I've always installed Eclipse manually before, and couldn't work out why Ubuntu's version didn't seem to be using the heap size settings I was telling it to use in eclipse.ini

This explains it!

A simpler solution to get eclipse to behave as it does when you install it manually is just to edit the launcher to run /usr/lib/eclipse/eclipse instead of /usr/bin/eclipse. Or you could set up a sym link to it from /usr/bin to avoid having to type so much if you like to launch eclipse from a shell.