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.
I found this post that show the same problem but the post focus only on font and background color, not the bullet itself.
According to the devs in the bug report i made at https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=568543, "there was a workaround fix for this bug on Windows 7 which has since been removed, since it does not occur on Windows 10". So either use the last working version 2020-03 or change to a OS that has dark theme support as the tree is now a native widget.
So it seems the problem is reccurent with Eclipse 2020-06 and windows 7. I was able to reproduce the bug on 2 differents computers.
Reverting to Eclipse 2020-03 has sloved the problem.
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I had set the theme to Dark, and changed the editor background/foreground colours, but it did not work (only changed the line number background). So, I searched the web and found the existing question. But the answer was saying the same thing that I already had done.
Is the method changed? Why can't I set the editor background to complete black and the text to complete white?
This worked for me:
1. Launch Eclipse
2. Click on Help
3. Select Eclipse Marketplace
4. Open Popular tab
5. Select and install "Darkest Dark Theme with DevStyle CI 2019.9.16"
6. Wait for it to finish installation
7. Restart Eclipse
At this stage, eclipse should restart with options to tweak background colour to your desired theme
There seems to be a recent Eclipse bug.
There is a possibly duplicate question here which has at least one additional suggested workaround besides the other answer to this question.
For anyone still looking for this known bug in eclipse -> install the plugin that James Kufre mentioned, right know there is another version called:
Darkest Dark Theme with DevStyle 2022.6.13a.
This plugin fixes the bug. You can then basically choose the complete color scheme of eclipse. So not only the editor field, but also the menus and everything!
I had been using Eclipse 3.x for a few years and while I had a few issues w.r.t. its stability and performance, I never had any particular annoyance with the UI itself...
Now that the new and shiny Eclipse 4.2 is out of the oven, it feels more stable and somewhat snappier, but I instantly felt a dislike for some details of its UI:
I find the "curved" look of the main toolbar distracting and it seems to me that it does not mix well with any other element in my desktop. It could just be a color issue, but the toolbar is prevalent enough to merit a specific mention.
The default colors do not work well with the TFT/TN displays of the laptop and both desktop computers that I am using. The various gradients seem completely washed out, the tab separators are practically invisible and the toolbar curve looks totally weird.
It's also almost impossible to tell which view is active - Eclipse 3.x used a unique blue color for the active tab header. Juno uses a color-reversal in all inactive tabs, which probably sounds more visible, but in my opinion that effect is lost because the active tab is still in a shade of gray which is lost in the overall gray-ness of the new UI...
So, how do I get back to a more reasonable look and feel? Is there somewhere a theming option that would help?
PS.1: I use Eclipse/GTK on Linux...
PS.2: What happened to all the colors in Juno, anyway?
PS.3: Can we keep the new splash screen, though? That one, I like...
Apparently, the Eclipse developers were kind enough to leave us an easy way out:
From the Window menu, select Preferences.
Expand the General category in the Preferences dialog tree.
Click on the Appearance sub-category.
On the left side of the window, a Theme drop-down menu will appear - click on it.
Select Classic in the Theme drop-down menu.
Most important: you need to restart Eclipse after that, even though no hint to that effect appears.
This setting is mentioned in several blog posts, which for some reason I could not find until I started using terms such as "awful" and "ugly" in Google. It seems that I was not the only one to find the new theme unbearable...
There is another way documented here.
This goes a lot further than the switch to classic theme and makes it look like 3.x.
The problem with the Juno L & F is that its great on monitors with 1600x1050. But my work PC has 2 screens that are 1280x1-24. Not so great!
I found a way to make Juno look like Indigo: I know there are new fancy themes around but I'm not willing to spend time on it.
My solution is just to copy the Indigo css_prefs files into Juno directory
.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.core.runtime/.settings
The file you have to look for are
org.eclipse.e4.ui.css.swt.theme.prefs and org.eclipse.wst.css.ui.prefs
If you don't have them you can download from my blog http://www.venturin.net/2013/04/04/eclipse-juno-looks-ugly-in-linux-mint-14-nadia/
To restore traditional style tabs on more recent versions of Eclipse, edit e4_classic_winxp.css and change swt-simple: false; to swt-simple: true; (this assumes you are using the default Classic theme).
On Eclipse Kepler this file is located in:
eclipse\plugins\org.eclipse.platform_4.3.2.v20140221-1700\css
On Eclipse Mars this file is located in:
eclipse\plugins\org.eclipse.ui.themes_1.1.0.v20150511-0913\css
In eclipse JDE, when I move my mouse over a Java element, a pop up will show up an with 'Press F2 for focus'. My question is how can I configure the background color of that popup? I have gone to 'Color and Font' in the preference. I have tried all the ones with 'black' background, but i still can't change the color.
I am using eclipse 3.7M7 on ubuntu 11.04.
Can u please tell me how can I change the color ?
hey mate I think your having same problem as me. I think this might help
try installing XulRunner 1.9.2 or later, I think its accordingly to your version of Firefox
If I'm not mistaking, well here are the links hope it helps
xulRunner versions...
also Im no sure if your doing some gwt but I had an issue with the designer with the BLACK background anyway this is how you fix it
Gwt fix for the black background on designer
All but one colour is a problem in Eclipse with the new Ubuntu (10.10) dark themes.
I want to change only this one, not the theme.
This is the background/colour used by Eclipse in lists (Explorer, Open Resource) when an item is pre selected (a selected item displays ok).
The current display is white on light-grey, not easily readable.
Where can I change that?
Update July 2012 (18 months later):
With the latest Eclipse4.2 (June 2012, "Juno") release, you won't depend on the OS colors anymore.
See the article by Lars Vogel in "Eclipse 4 is beautiful – Create your own Eclipse 4 theme":
If you want to play with it, you only need to write a plug-in, create a CSS file and use the org.eclipse.e4.ui.css.swt.theme extension point to point to your file.
If you export your plug-in, place it in the “dropins” folder of your Eclipse installation and your styling is available.
Original answer: December 2010
It is a system color (a background color based on the underlying OS system color properties), so you will have to change a property in the theme, not a setting in Eclipse.
For instance, see "How to change the color of menu text?" (but this may not be exactly how your dark theme works and you will need to tweak the ~/.gnome* files)
just want to say that I had the same problem and that changing the "selected entry" text colour of the theme to #8C8C8C fixed it for me without hurting the themes "look and feel"
Maybe a way to alter the colors locally (as in application dependant)?
A background color of eclipse is white, the same white of windows' active window background color. If I change the color on the theme, eclipse changes to the color.
I want to change this software's color without changing the whole theme (because then every program gets weird colors). Is this possible? I thought that maybe there was a way to apply different windows themes to different programs, or something.
I'm using windows XP, classic windows theme.
Install the "Eclipse 4 Chrome Theme" from
http://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/eclipse-4-chrome-theme
Then you can customize a lot of the Eclipse UI widgets.
But not what you want, at least not out of the box.
For that you should go to the CSS tab (in Eclipse 4 Chrome Theme) and paste this:
Tree, List, Table {
background-color: #202020;
color: #d0d0d0;
}
You can change almost anything, the problem is finding out what, and the fact that some things are bitmaps that you can't change (so if the bitmap is dark and you set a dark background you will "loose" the bitmap)
This list of widgets might help, http://download.eclipse.org/rt/rap/doc/1.5/help/html/reference/theming/index.html but they give you generic info on the widget names, not the Eclipse info (with IDs and all), so be careful :-)
== Very late addition ==
Everything you need in one place, including links to a custom dark theme: http://mihai-nita.net/2013/09/19/dark-eclipse/
Mac Screen Shot Example as of Sept 2013 (please be sure to restart Eclipse after changing file):
Just search "Theme" in the Eclipse Market Place. Install Moonrise. (Should be first option). Then go to the General, appearance, Click on appearance, change theme to moonrise, Then there you go.
Knowing the way the workbench is built, I'm sure your request is not possible on the Eclipse side. You can do this for the editors, because they are StyledText widgets, and you are exposed some preferences to customize these.
The other views are various widgets, some are Trees, some are Text, some are composed from various other widgets. All of them are created with the default constructor which just uses the Windows theme.
I don't know of a way to change every Eclipse window to your color scheme, but I can get you at least as far as changing some of the editing windows...
Open up "Window -> Preferences", then under "General | Editors | Text Editors" you will find a section that will allow you to set the "Appearance color options", Background color is one of those options.
PS: I'm using Eclipse 3.6 (Helios)
Sadly, this is not possible (which is crazy).
However, Aptana Studio (which is an Eclipse derivative) lets you theme the entire IDE.
I did some research and found that actualy it is posible to change all colors, but abit harder.
there are two methods that I found so far.
first since eclipse is using OS themes, you can change your OS background settings, like folder background etc., or just change the whole theme if your using windows, but the downside is that all windowses will be same color, in linux and mac os it is also posible, but in different way, I did read it somewhere, but can't remember where :)
second creating a specific theme for eclipse, for example http://rogerdudler.github.io/eclipse-ui-themes/ or any other theme like google chrome etc.
Install the theme from here as per the instruction in the github:
https:// github.com/guari/eclipse-ui-theme
If you don't like the editor color theme, there are bunch of 'em here
http://eclipsecolorthemes.org/
Combination of both just works like charm for me!