Like many Boxee developers, my IDE of choice is Eclipse on Linux. I’ve got my install finely tweaked for superfast Boxee development and it’s become a staple of my workflow.

Naturally, I upgraded my Ubuntu install to 9.10 Karmic Koala as soon as I could to get many updated features, not the least of which included the Galileo release of Eclipse.  However, I was dismayed along with a number of other upgraders that I couldn’t retweak my configuration because of a crash every time I clicked on “Add New Software.”  After a couple hours of reviewing the error logs, reinstalling my JDK and other ritualistic attempts to get my IDE stable, I came across this bug in the Launchpad indicating it was an issue with Ubuntu, not Eclipse.

Here’s the easy work around:

Click System -> Preferences -> Assistive Technologies -> Untick first checkbox

Logout and login to Ubuntu and Eclipse should work fine.