I was evaluating the Enterprise IDE plugin for Eclipse, and ultimately decided not to purchase it. After I uninstalled the plugin, I was left with a bunch of perspective buttons (the ones in the far upper-right-hand corner) which I can't remove. How do I get rid of the manually, without nuking my workspace?
Edit: To be clear, right-clicking and going to "close" does nothing. Not even an error message.
How did you uninstall that plugin ?
Was it install in the dropins directory or in <eclipse>/plugins and <eclipse>/features ?
In the latter case, did you delete all directories/jar in /features, because if that plugin was packaged as a product, it did define in the product extension point a plugin_customization.ini which can indicate some perspective buttons.
If not, the only solution is to have a careful look at your workspace metadata, look for all recent file related to that plugin and remove them.
Make a copy of your workspace first though.
You could also try launching Eclipse with the -clean command line argument. This cleans out the Eclipse runtime cache, so it might fix your problem as well.
Window --> Preferences --> General --> Perspectives Select the perspective you want to delete and remove it. Some of them are unremovable. I don,t know why.
I had the same problem after installing a plugin. The answer is quite simple, if not obvious.
1) Open Window | Preferences 2) Click General node 3) Click Perspectives
Find the perspective in the list and then select Delete command on the right.
The list will refresh and your perspective is deleted.