Eclipse - Run/Debug shortcut key doesn't work

Question

In Eclipse I can only run/debug my project by using one of the menu buttons. Pressing F11 or Ctrl + F11 does nothing. I\'ve mapped Debug Las

Answer 1

Edit: My post doesn't directly react the original malfunctioning-F11-behavoir question. But the issue I had seems quite similar and definitely it relates to some other (quite highly voted) answers.

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I've bumped into a similar issue too when I upgraded to Eclipse 4.7 Oxygen and needed to install several plugins from a scratch. F* keys didn't work in the debug perspective even though the appropriate key bindings were configured correctly.

Unfortunately, neither reseting perspective nor reseting key bindings (as suggested in some comments here) helped.

The trick that fixed that for me was:

Preferences > Run/Debug > Perspectives > Restore Defaults

That revived the F* keys functionality in my debug perspective. I don't thing this is the universal way how to bring the behaviour back, but among the other "Resets to defaults" this one may be the right one in some cases, so it's worth trying.