Troubleshooting system issues - bobbyiliev/dbeaver GitHub Wiki

Linux

GTK

DBeaver is an Eclipse RCP application. Therefore, it may have issues with GTK. Here are known workarounds regarding various issues which may arise.

Fixing screen flickering.

  • Add export GTK_IM_MODULE=ibus to ~/.profile.

Parts of DBeaver are white/dark on dark/white theme

To fix the issue, we recommended having a graphical theme which is similar to system one in terms of the color palette.

No more handles because there is no underlying browser available

You need to install libwebkit2gtk library to your system, this will solve the issue and allow you to use DBeaver browser functionality

GTK-WARNING xxx:Theme parsing error

This issue requires you to change the GTK-program-style system settings-appearance-program style(the setting location may vary for different systems).

gtk_box_gadget_distribute: assertion size 'size >=0 0' failed in GtkScrollbar

To fix this issue, you need to remove the overlay scrollbars in ~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini.

[Settings]
gtk-overlay-scrolling = false