Vista

Usually I code in Eclipse. It saves me a lot of time, especially thanks to plugins such as oXygen and Mylyn.  However, it’s been frustrating me for a while that although I can pop-out individual Views and position them on my second monitor, it didn’t seem possible to open a second instance of the same View. I was wrong!  Just select “New window” from the “Window” menu.  It seems to have full functionality, you can even select an entirely different Perspective, if you wish. Simples! As Aleksandr Orlov would say :)

After upgrading Ubuntu to Karmic Koala I experienced a few problems getting Eclipse to work properly – mostly buttons that clicked but triggered nothing. Thankfully, Chris Chrisostomu had already published a blog post on the matter, including instructions for a potential fix that certainly seems to have sorted it out for me:
http://mou.me.uk/2009/10/31/fixing-eclipse-in-ubuntu-9-10-karmic-koala/

My thanks go to Chris for writing it up so clearly.