Eclipse Juno Perspective tool bar
There is actually no need to reset your perspective, let alone to nuke your workbench.xmi memo file. There is a smarter way:
Open a new workbench window. From the main menu:
Window
=>Ǹew Window
. Please note that the new window does have the (already customized) Perspective Bar.Close the window that does not have the Perspective Bar first.
Close the second window. This will save a cleaner version of workbench.xmi (overriding the one that has a perspective bar positioned out of the screen).
Reopen eclipse. The Perspective Bar is back at its place.
There are two things you can try:
- Reset your current perspective (Window/Reset perspective...). Although your configured set of views will get lost, it might bring back the perspective switcher.
- If that does not work, then you should reset the entire saved workbench GUI. This can be done by deleting the .metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.e4.workbench/workbench.xmi file from your workspace folder, or by starting eclipse with the -clearPersistedState
Point 2. assumes, that in case of Juno you are using Eclipse 4.2 (the new GUI, not 3.8, the old).