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How do I pin to the windows taskbar a running version of Eclipse Mars?

An issue that previous versions of Eclipse had is that if I pinned the exe to my Windows Taskbar, there would be two icons. As an alternative, I could pin the running EXE to the taskbar and it would work just fine.

Now that Eclipse Mars is out, this doesn't seem to be working anymore. Right clicking a running version of Mars does not bring up the "Pin to Taskbar" option. Is there something I'm missing or some other workaround to pin Mars to the windows taskbar?

Solution

  • In this version, I had to add the -vm argument to the very top of my eclipse.ini file.

    -vm
C:\Program Files\Java\[jdk version]\bin

    This is strange as I've not had to do this before, however; it appears that others had to do this in the past with other versions of Eclipse.