diff --git a/org.eclipse.wb.os.linux/native/gtk/gtk3/rcp.c b/org.eclipse.wb.os.linux/native/gtk/gtk3/rcp.c
index 315ac6edb..ed965c577 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.wb.os.linux/native/gtk/gtk3/rcp.c
+++ b/org.eclipse.wb.os.linux/native/gtk/gtk3/rcp.c
@@ -16,23 +16,44 @@
 
 ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
 //
-// Widget bounds
+// GtkAllocation
 //
 ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
-static void getWidgetBounds(GtkWidget* widget, JNIEnv *envir, jintArray jsizes) {
-	GtkAllocation a;
-	// prepare buffer
-	jsize sizesSize = (*envir)->GetArrayLength(envir, jsizes);
-	jint *sizes = malloc(sizesSize * sizeof(jint));
-	memset(&a, 0, sizeof(GtkAllocation));
-	gtk_widget_get_allocation(widget, &a);
-	*(sizes + 0) = a.x;
-	*(sizes + 1) = a.y;
-	*(sizes + 2) = a.width;
-	*(sizes + 3) = a.height;
-	// copy dimensions into java array
-	(*envir)->SetIntArrayRegion(envir, jsizes, 0, sizesSize, sizes);
-	free(sizes);
+
+typedef struct JGtkAllocation {
+	jclass clazz;
+	jfieldID x;
+	jfieldID y;
+	jfieldID width;
+	jfieldID height;
+} JGtkAllocation;
+JGtkAllocation GTK_ALLOCATION = { .clazz = NULL};
+
+static void init_gtk_allocation(JNIEnv *envir, jobject jallocation) {
+	if (GTK_ALLOCATION.clazz != NULL) {
+		return;
+	}
+	GTK_ALLOCATION.clazz = (*envir)->GetObjectClass(envir, jallocation);
+	GTK_ALLOCATION.x = (*envir)->GetFieldID(envir, GTK_ALLOCATION.clazz, "x", "I");
+	GTK_ALLOCATION.y = (*envir)->GetFieldID(envir, GTK_ALLOCATION.clazz, "y", "I");
+	GTK_ALLOCATION.width = (*envir)->GetFieldID(envir, GTK_ALLOCATION.clazz, "width", "I");
+	GTK_ALLOCATION.height = (*envir)->GetFieldID(envir, GTK_ALLOCATION.clazz, "height", "I");
+}
+
+static void get_gtk_allocation(JNIEnv *envir, jobject jallocation, GtkAllocation *allocation) {
+	init_gtk_allocation(envir, jallocation);
+	allocation->x = (*envir)->GetIntField(envir, jallocation, GTK_ALLOCATION.x);
+	allocation->y = (*envir)->GetIntField(envir, jallocation, GTK_ALLOCATION.y);
+	allocation->width = (*envir)->GetIntField(envir, jallocation, GTK_ALLOCATION.width);
+	allocation->height = (*envir)->GetIntField(envir, jallocation, GTK_ALLOCATION.height);
+}
+
+static void set_gtk_allocation(JNIEnv *envir, jobject jallocation, GtkAllocation *allocation) {
+	init_gtk_allocation(envir, jallocation);
+	(*envir)->SetIntField(envir, jallocation, GTK_ALLOCATION.x, (jint)allocation->x);
+	(*envir)->SetIntField(envir, jallocation, GTK_ALLOCATION.y, (jint)allocation->y);
+	(*envir)->SetIntField(envir, jallocation, GTK_ALLOCATION.width, (jint)allocation->width);
+	(*envir)->SetIntField(envir, jallocation, GTK_ALLOCATION.height, (jint)allocation->height);
 }
 
 ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
@@ -132,9 +153,11 @@ JNIEXPORT JHANDLE JNICALL OS_NATIVE(_1getImageSurface)
 	return (JHANDLE) copyImageSurface((GdkWindow*)(CHANDLE) windowHandle, width, height);
 }
 // tab item bounds
-JNIEXPORT void JNICALL OS_NATIVE(_1getWidgetBounds)
-		(JNIEnv *envir, jobject that, JHANDLE jhandle, jintArray jsizes) {
-	getWidgetBounds((GtkWidget*)(CHANDLE) jhandle, envir, jsizes);
+JNIEXPORT void JNICALL OS_NATIVE(_1gtk_1widget_1get_1allocation)
+		(JNIEnv *envir, jobject that, JHANDLE jhandle, jobject jallocation) {
+	GtkAllocation allocation;
+	gtk_widget_get_allocation((GtkWidget*)(CHANDLE) jhandle, &allocation);
+	set_gtk_allocation(envir, jallocation, &allocation);
 }
 // other
 static jboolean isPlusMinusTreeClick(GtkTreeView *tree, gint x, gint y) {
diff --git a/org.eclipse.wb.os.linux/os/linux/x86_64/libwbp3.so b/org.eclipse.wb.os.linux/os/linux/x86_64/libwbp3.so
index 06bc75d5a..589cde78c 100755
Binary files a/org.eclipse.wb.os.linux/os/linux/x86_64/libwbp3.so and b/org.eclipse.wb.os.linux/os/linux/x86_64/libwbp3.so differ
diff --git a/org.eclipse.wb.os.linux/src/org/eclipse/wb/internal/os/linux/GdkRectangle.java b/org.eclipse.wb.os.linux/src/org/eclipse/wb/internal/os/linux/GdkRectangle.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..2bd62bd36
--- /dev/null
+++ b/org.eclipse.wb.os.linux/src/org/eclipse/wb/internal/os/linux/GdkRectangle.java
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+/*******************************************************************************
+ * Copyright (c) 2024 Patrick Ziegler and others.
+ * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
+ * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
+ * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
+ * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
+ *
+ * Contributors:
+ *    Patrick Ziegler - initial API and implementation
+ *******************************************************************************/
+package org.eclipse.wb.internal.os.linux;
+
+/**
+ * A GdkRectangle data type for representing rectangles.
+ *
+ * GdkRectangle is identical to cairo_rectangle_t. Together with Cairo’s
+ * cairo_region_t data type, these are the central types for representing sets
+ * of pixels.
+ *
+ * The intersection of two rectangles can be computed with
+ * gdk_rectangle_intersect(); to find the union of two rectangles use
+ * gdk_rectangle_union().
+ *
+ * The cairo_region_t type provided by Cairo is usually used for managing
+ * non-rectangular clipping of graphical operations.
+ *
+ * The Graphene library has a number of other data types for regions and volumes
+ * in 2D and 3D.
+ */
+public sealed class GdkRectangle permits GtkAllocation {
+	public int x;
+	public int y;
+	public int width;
+	public int height;
+}
diff --git a/org.eclipse.wb.os.linux/src/org/eclipse/wb/internal/os/linux/GtkAllocation.java b/org.eclipse.wb.os.linux/src/org/eclipse/wb/internal/os/linux/GtkAllocation.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..f30d934da
--- /dev/null
+++ b/org.eclipse.wb.os.linux/src/org/eclipse/wb/internal/os/linux/GtkAllocation.java
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+/*******************************************************************************
+ * Copyright (c) 2024 Patrick Ziegler and others.
+ * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
+ * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
+ * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
+ * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
+ *
+ * Contributors:
+ *    Patrick Ziegler - initial API and implementation
+ *******************************************************************************/
+package org.eclipse.wb.internal.os.linux;
+
+/**
+ * A GtkAllocation-struct of a widget represents region which has been allocated
+ * to the widget by its parent. It is a subregion of its parents allocation.
+ */
+public final class GtkAllocation extends GdkRectangle {
+
+}
diff --git a/org.eclipse.wb.os.linux/src/org/eclipse/wb/internal/os/linux/OSSupportLinux.java b/org.eclipse.wb.os.linux/src/org/eclipse/wb/internal/os/linux/OSSupportLinux.java
index a15ae3714..f3f996e0a 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.wb.os.linux/src/org/eclipse/wb/internal/os/linux/OSSupportLinux.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.wb.os.linux/src/org/eclipse/wb/internal/os/linux/OSSupportLinux.java
@@ -261,10 +261,10 @@ public Image makeShot(Control control) throws Exception {
 	 * @return the widget's bounds as {@link Rectangle}.
 	 */
 	private Rectangle getWidgetBounds(Object widget) {
+		GtkAllocation rect = new GtkAllocation();
 		long widgetHandle = getHandleValue(widget, "handle");
-		int[] sizes = new int[4];
-		_getWidgetBounds(widgetHandle, sizes);
-		return new Rectangle(sizes[0], sizes[1], sizes[2], sizes[3]);
+		_gtk_widget_get_allocation(widgetHandle, rect);
+		return new Rectangle(rect.x, rect.y, rect.width, rect.height);
 	}
 
 	/**
@@ -510,14 +510,27 @@ public void runAwt(Runnable job) {
 	private static native boolean _isPlusMinusTreeClick(long handle, int x, int y);
 
 	/**
-	 * Fills the given array of int with bounds as x, y, width, height sequence.
 	 *
-	 * @param widgetHandle
-	 *          the handle (GtkWidget*) of widget.
-	 * @param bounds
-	 *          the array of integer with size 4.
+	 * Retrieves the widget’s allocation.
+	 *
+	 * Note, when implementing a GtkContainer: a widget’s allocation will be its
+	 * “adjusted” allocation, that is, the widget’s parent container typically calls
+	 * gtk_widget_size_allocate() with an allocation, and that allocation is then
+	 * adjusted (to handle margin and alignment for example) before assignment to
+	 * the widget. gtk_widget_get_allocation() returns the adjusted allocation that
+	 * was actually assigned to the widget. The adjusted allocation is guaranteed to
+	 * be completely contained within the gtk_widget_size_allocate() allocation,
+	 * however. So a GtkContainer is guaranteed that its children stay inside the
+	 * assigned bounds, but not that they have exactly the bounds the container
+	 * assigned. There is no way to get the original allocation assigned by
+	 * gtk_widget_size_allocate(), since it isn’t stored; if a container
+	 * implementation needs that information it will have to track it itself.
+	 *
+	 *
+	 * @param widgetHandle the handle (GtkWidget*) of widget.
+	 * @param rect         A pointer to a GtkAllocation to copy to.
 	 */
-	private static native void _getWidgetBounds(long widgetHandle, int[] bounds);
+	private static native void _gtk_widget_get_allocation(long widgetHandle, GtkAllocation rect);
 
 	/**
 	 * Paints the surface of the given window onto a image. The image is created