I would like to know if there is any way to change the color of the bulleted item in tree view in Eclipse while using a dark theme, they are almost invisible.
Try to use eclipse dark background, DevStyle dark theme, eclipse preferences, DPI settings, changing my Windows theme, and it seems like nothing can change the color of these bullets.
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I'm new to using Eclipse and programming softwares in general, so more thorough explanations would be appreciated!
How do I change the text back to a dark color to read it, and is it possible to make the background grey and keep the text white?
Depending on the Eclipse version you are using, Dark theme may differ:
Under Eclipse Bar Menu Window, select Preferences
From the Preferences Window, Select General -> Appearance
From the drop down Theme, select one of the available "Dark" themes
You could also click here on the Restore Default button to revert all changes you have tried then Click on Apply button
Must restart Eclipse to be effective.
Following is the Default Dark Theme when using Old Eclipse 2019-09
Following is the Default Dark Theme when using New Eclipse 2020-12
I had the same issue of having light background and light text in the menu dropdowns.
Fixed by cycling the Windows theme from custom to "Windows" then back to a dark these. This was done in Personalization -> Themes in Windows 10. Now, the dropdowns are dark with legible text.
I installed the dark theme for Eclipse but since I didn't like it, I uninstalled it. But what happened was this.The background of the text editor remains black after uninstalling the theme
The background of the text editor remains black after uninstalling the theme although the text color is the original from the standard white background again
(If I switch the workspace the background becomes normal, thus, I guess, it does have something to do with the .plugins folder inside the .metadata folder of the workspace)
Any ideas?
What do you mean by installing a theme? You can easily change the theme through the Eclipse preferences by: Preferences > General > Appearance. Inside the Appearance menu should be a place where you can change the theme.
In Eclipse 4.2 on Windows 7, in the search results tab, the selected search result has an unpleasant light color that makes it hard to read the text under it:
I have not been able to locate where this color is. Any ideas?
Try changing your Themes & Appearance settings.
Go to Windows > Preferences > General > Appearance
You will get options for Color themes, and label decorations.
you can download more themes from eclipse theme plugin
Its operating system's default selection color, you cannot change that thro' eclipse. Although if you select a light color theme, you will get black or dark color text and you will be able to see the text more clearly over this light blue background. or you can manually choose dark shades of colors for text.
I have dark eclipse theme (Moonrise) and also dark theme for native widgets set in KDE. The problem is that dar blue hyperlink are not very legible so I would like them to be of different color. In the picture there is not that dark theme used, but with darker colors the link cannot be read.
Even thoughtI was setting the hyperlink color in every possible settings menu I could think of, I have not been able to set eclipse hyperlink color. It seems that Eclipse ignored the Appearance -> Colors and fonts settings.
It would make somehow sense if the native GUI settings would be to have dark blue hyperlink color. But I cannot see, that this would be the case in Application Appearance -> Colors section.
Is there a way to change the color of hyperlink? Why is it still dark blue? I am not interested in settings the tooltip background as is often suggested in this case- I have already set it to lighter color so the hyperlinks are readable.
Go to Window > Preferences and change the current theme restart eclipse. Refer picture below.
Install eclipse colour theme plugin then you will get lots of options to change the theme. See here.
Note that in different themes the colour of active and visited link will be different.
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After looking at your comment, you may get some clues from here
GNOME settings
KDE settings
Eclipse on Ubuntu
I am using Eclipse 3.5 IDE on Fedora linux. Too much white or light gray color is hurtful to my eyes. I managed to change the background of editor and console window to black but nothing else so I am still seeing 30 to 40% space as not black. How do I change the background color of package explorer?
If not possible then how to hack into eclipse source code or config files somewhere to do that and also to change all UI panels color to black from the current light grey and text to some other color from black?
Much of the appearance of Eclipse is controlled by the GTK+ theme. You can edit the current theme or try different themes out. The "Nokoka-Midnight" theme, for instance, is almost entirely black. I like a program called gtk-chtheme to switch them.
Nokoka-Midnight
To change only editor without affecting the entire IDE you can try two approaches:
http://www.eclipsecolorthemes.org/
Go to Windows>Preferences>General>Editors>Text Editors and Java>Editor>Syntax Colouring and edit the colors there.