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abarax
abarax

Reputation: 6299

Eclipse fonts and background color

I have been trying to change the background color of Eclipse's windows to black and customize the font colors. There doesn't seem to be a way to do this, at least not in an obvious way. I am using version 3.3.

How do I do this or are there any plugin's that might be able to assist in doing this?

Upvotes: 260

Views: 467259

Answers (11)

prashant.kr.mod
prashant.kr.mod

Reputation: 1722

Switch to Theme... is also an option

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Upvotes: 0

Some Guy
Some Guy

Reputation: 554

If you are having trouble with Eclipse 2019 and using a dark theme and setting the background and having it not change: There seems to be a recent Eclipse bug. I suggest you look here or here for workarounds.

Upvotes: 4

Patricia
Patricia

Reputation: 2865

Under Windows → Preferences → General → Apperance you can find a dark theme.

Upvotes: 15

Paul Wicks
Paul Wicks

Reputation: 65670

On Windows or Mac, you can find this setting under the General → Editors → Text Editors menu.

Upvotes: 0

Craig Angus
Craig Angus

Reputation: 23198

To change background colour

  1. Open menu *Windows → Preferences → General → Editors → Text Editors
    • Browse Appearance color options
    • Select background color options, uncheck default, change to black
    • Select background color options, uncheck default, change to colour of choice

To change text colours

  1. Open Java → Editor → Syntax Colouring
    • Select element from Java
    • Change colour
    • List item

To change Java editor font

  1. Open menu Windows → Preferences → General → Appearance → Colors and Fonts
    • Select Java → Java Editor Text font from list
    • Click on change and select font

Upvotes: 300

Anirudh Jadhav
Anirudh Jadhav

Reputation: 1007

The easiest way is to install the plugin is from the Eclipse Marketplace. Go to Help→Eclipse Marketplace, then search for Eclipse Color Theme and install it.

Upvotes: 2

jacanterbury
jacanterbury

Reputation: 1505

... on a Mac, Preferences' is under the main 'Aptana Studio 3' menu rather than the 'Windows' menu as mentioned above.

Upvotes: 0

cowboybkit
cowboybkit

Reputation: 1085

You can install eclipse theme plugin then select default. Please visit here: http://eclipsecolorthemes.org/?view=plugin

Upvotes: 3

electricSunny
electricSunny

Reputation: 3229

I just came across this: Eclipse Colour Themes

Install the plugin and choose from a selection of pre-defined themes, or write your own. Just what I needed!

Upvotes: 160

Reputation:

Background color of views (navigator, console, tasks etc) is set according to the desktop (system) settings. On Linux/GNome I changed System/Preferences/Appeareance to change this color.

Editor colors are set chaotically by different editors, search for background in eclipse preferences to find different options. One easy way to get beautiful dark (and not only dark) themes is to install Afae plugin, and then pick theme within its preferences (twilight theme is beautiful, for example) - again, eclipse prefs, Afae group. Of course this applies only when you edit with Afae.

Upvotes: 12

paxdiablo
paxdiablo

Reputation: 882586

If you go to Windows, Preferences then select General, Editors, Text editors, you can set colors on that property page (and there's a link for setting MORE colors - General, Appearance, Colors and fonts).

That's with an Eclipse 3.3 build anyway.

Upvotes: 2

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