I'm running VS Code on Win 7 with aero off and the Win 7 "Basic" theme. I'm using the VS light theme on VSCode. This means that editor windows and such have a white background. Apps that obey the Win 7 theme has a boundary around them to delineate where the window ends. VSCode doesn't appear to obey this -
Notice how the window just bleeds into the window behind it. I find this visually disorienting. Yes, a different theme with a dark background would solve this, but I have a strong preference for dark text on a light (white) background.
Is there any way to force VSCode to use the Win 7 windows layout?
VSCode will use the OS standard window decorations, including window frame borders, if you set the "Window: Title Bar Style" setting to "native". (It affects more than just the title bar.)
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Why is the Visual Studio Code native-mode menu dropdown white, even though I have dark mode activated and I use Fedora Linux and the dark mode is activated in Fedora, yet it is white? What is the solution as shown in the picture?
I don't try anything because I can't know the problem.
I'm not sure why the native title bar mode is showing up for you with light mode colouring. Supposedly, you can switch to dark mode on the GNOME desktop environment with the following:
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface gtk-theme Adwaita-dark
(or whatever other dark mode theme is available on your machine)
But if that doesn't work, you can get colouring consistent with your selected colour theme in VS Code by putting this in your settings.json:
"window.titleBarStyle": "custom",
The description for that setting:
Adjust the appearance of the window title bar. On Linux and Windows, this setting also affects the application and context menu appearances. Changes require a full restart to apply.
I am using Elementary OS, based on Ubuntu 12.04 and Eclipse Luna.
The background color of javadoc popups is black and font color is dark grey, so it is unreadable.
I tried to change background in eclipse preferences, but it did not change.
Then I used google, and found solution, that I need to change tooltip bg color. So I did it. But still no change.
Anyone knows how to change that color ?
I had the same problem with Ubuntu 16.04 and Eclipse Mars. I solved the problem by adding the following lines in eclipse.ini :
--launcher.GTK_version
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As a KDE user, you have to change the tooltip background color with System Settings. Navigate to
Application Apperearence -> Colors (Left side menu) -> Colors (Colors tab on right side)
and adjust the Tooltip Background and Tooltip Text colors. In your case, adjusting the tooltip background should be enough.
The setting is under GNOME UBUNTU in Settings.
I would get a blank assist popup window and if I clicked on the window it would turn black and not show any text.
I tried many things to get the text to show up like changing the eclipse foreground and back ground colors or the above system settings.
I then started to look at the VcXsrv X server program I was running to display on my windows box.
I turned off the 'Native opengl' in the 'Extra Settings' screen of the XLaunch program.
This fixed my problem.
Since upgrading to Ubuntu 12.10, one of the things that's been annoying me is the background color of the left margin of the Eclipse Java editor window. It's pretty much white, which makes it difficult to see where the actual left edge of the editor window ends and the margin begins. Screenshot:
I've looked through all the Eclipse color settings and also all the "Gnome Color Chooser" settings and I don't see where I would change this. Any ideas?
Thanks!
You will want to go to Windows->Preferences->General->Editors->Text Editors and find the section called Appearance color options. You will want to change the Selection background color. This will also change the background of the main document, but this will make where one section begins and ends well defined. You can experiment with these settings and the settings under Java->Editor until you get the color scheme you want.
I am using OS X Lion and bought a Dell monitor last night.
A few minutes ago, I found that with the Eclipse's default window background color, the color trembles like a fluorescent light. That color was (233,233,233) and I found the color makes that part of the screen tremble in every case. I mean, if I set the desktop color to that, the desktop trembles.
I had installed Windows on the same Mac, so I booted up with Windows 7, but (233,233,233) did not make the screen tremble. Maybe it is because of the Lion OS.
Now, with the Eclipse's background trembling, it is really annoying to write codes. I investigated the preferences, but I could not find any option to change the window background color. How can I do this?
If the color is tied to the system preferences, how can I change the system color for that? I could not change any option in the System Preferences dialogue either.
You can change the background color of text editors via Preferences -> "Text Editors". Though, I'm not sure whether it will be any prettier than what you see today...
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.