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Reputation: 11863

Changing UI color in Eclipse

I'm aware of color themes for Eclipse: I've used it to change most of the editor colors, and that's great.

But that wasn't enough, there's still too much white. How to change it? (It hurts my eyes.)

I've searched in the preferences (both using Eclipse itself and editing the files) for instances of white (255,255,255) and changed them all. Looks like I'm missing something.

Upvotes: 10

Views: 18163

Answers (5)

cpprto
cpprto

Reputation: 21

You can try these steps:

  1. Find the path: ~/.p2/pool/plugins/org.eclipse.ui.themes_*.*.****.v********-****/css/e4_basestyle.css;

  2. Use a text editor (example: Sublime Text 3) to open e4_basestyle.css if you used default theme config;

  3. Append this code and save

#org-eclipse-jdt-ui-PackageExplorer Tree,
#org-eclipse-ui-navigator-ProjectExplorer Tree {
  font-size: 10px;
  font-family: "DejaVu Sans Mono for Powerline";
  background-color: RGB(223,238,223);
},
#org-eclipse-ui-views-ContentOutline Tree,
#PerspectiveSwitcher ToolBar {
  font-size: 10px;
  font-family: "DejaVu Sans Mono for Powerline";
  background-color: RGB(223,238,223);
}

Restart Eclipse. It is like this: result

Upvotes: 2

Wiretap
Wiretap

Reputation: 781

Probably not the answer you're looking for, but the IntelliJ community edition is an excellent free IDE and is very easy to use. The background colours can be set and changed to many colours. There are also a number of free plugins which can customize backgrounds and the look and feel. Well worth a look if you don't find exactly what you're looking for with Eclipse.

Upvotes: 3

jucardi
jucardi

Reputation: 1944

YES, THERE IS A WAY TO DO IT

You will need to configure 3 things in order to get your dark UI.

1) Java Editor Colors This is the source code edition area. You can use http://eclipsecolorthemes.org/ for the editor part, though those colors can be manually edited by default.

2) Eclipse UI The UI colors can be edited with the addin Chrome Theme which can be found in the eclipse market place or in the following link https://github.com/jeeeyul/eclipse-themes/. If you want a dark theme just edit away until you find the colors that suit you.

3) Final touches After doing the previous steps, some colors will still match the OS colors. To darken what's left, just get the pre-baked Dark Juno theme from https://github.com/eclipse-color-theme/eclipse-ui-themes. Download the zip file and unzip it into your dropins folder (which is located in your eclipse folder). If the dropins folder doesn't exist, just create it.

Restart eclipse and you are set.

Upvotes: 1

Chris Lercher
Chris Lercher

Reputation: 37798

I see you're on the Mac - the easiest thing to do would go to System Preferences -> Accessibility -> Seeing -> Display -> "White on Black". It will invert everything on your screen though, I don't know, if you'd like that?

Upvotes: 2

VonC
VonC

Reputation: 1329962

Each time you see white or gray color, this is more than likely related to OS system colors.

In other word, to truly have an Eclipse full dark theme, you need first to have a dark theme for your OS, and then your Eclipse will follow.

Here is an example on a Windows7, modifying just one parameter:

alt text http://img92.imageshack.us/img92/5053/eclipsered.png

Upvotes: 7

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