Let’s see what Eclipse looks like in Wayland in 2025.

I report some screenshots of a few Wayland Window Managers and Desktop Environments.

Sway

Eclipse looks good in Sway:

Hyprland

The same can be said for Hyprland, especially now that the infamous bug has been solved:

GNOME

No problems on GNOME either; I’d expect that since it is “natively” based on GTK:

If I run Eclipse forcing X11 (GDK_BACKEND=x11), I see no difference.

KDE

On KDE, the situation is not bad, but I find it far from optimal.

Eclipse on Wayland doesn’t look completely native on KDE Plasma:

Many parts don’t look sized correctly.

There’s also the strange thing of the window title bar for the splash screen, which, of course, is not expected:

Dialogs also look not properly sized:

In X11, it looks better, or at least better integrated with the KDE desktop. Moreover, there’s no additional titlebar in the splash screen, and the dialog looks better (for size and width):

That’s all for this post!