Known problems and limitations for Rich Page Editor

Various known problems and limitations apply when you are working with WebSphere® Developer Tools. Issues include, among others, a limitation when you change the Dojo Mobile theme, and a problem when the design pane of Rich Page Editor fails to work.

Rich Page Editor is supported on Ubuntu Linux

Rich Page Editor is supported on Ubuntu Linux, with the following considerations:

The design pane of Rich Page Editor can fail to work

[8.5.5.7 or later]If you are using the Unity desktop environment for Ubuntu, the design pane of Rich Page Editor can fail to work. In this situation, you can receive a null pointer exception.

You can work around this problem. To eliminate the null pointer exception, set the UBUNTU_MENUPROXY environment variable to 0.

For example, you can set this environment variable by running the following commands from the command line:
$ cd /path/to/studio/eclipse
$ export UBUNTU_MENUPROXY=0
$ ./eclipse

Opening a web page with Rich Page Editor can cause WebSphere Developer Tools to fail

In some Ubuntu configurations, WebSphere Developer Tools can fail when a web page is opened with the default editor, which is Rich Page Editor. This crash can happen due to a known problem in the Eclipse Standard Widget Toolkit.

To work around this problem, complete the following steps:
  1. Close WebSphere Developer Tools.
  2. Set the following environment variable:
    UBUNTU_MENUPROXY=0
  3. Restart WebSphere Developer Tools.
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