Eclipse crashing under Ubuntu

A quick one: Eclipse (2023-06) + Java (openjdk 17.0.7) under Ubuntu 22.04 crashes after a bit of interaction with this message: C [libwebkit2gtk-4.0.so.37+0xbbe3b6]. It’s Wayland, but there’s an easy workaround [1]:

env WEBKIT_DISABLE_COMPOSITING_MODE=1 ./eclipse

Resources

[1] Eclipse IDE crashing with Java errors since 22.04 upgrade when using wayland
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openjdk-lts/+bug/1988843/comments/5

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