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.
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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.
For luna, I have downloaded eclipse color theme and changed my text editor color to 'Solarized Dark'. How can I change my project explorer background color and other windows other than the editor? I have picked Dark Theme but I can't seem to customize dark theme to match the text editor background color. Any help is appreciated.
"Any help is appreciated"
You need to change some CSS files,
You will find them here :
C:...\eclipse\plugins\org.eclipse.ui.themes_1.0.1.v20141126-1957\css\
The next step is to find the right file and the right color to change (this is your part, i'm to lazy for it ^^ But it works)
You need to restart eclipse to see the changes.
Enjoy your customisation ! ;)
Please read before marking as duplicate, I have searched for an answer to my specific issue for a long time and have not found one.
My Eclipse (Luna 4.4.1) IDE refuses to change the background color for the text editor. Please see the screenshot. It seems to be black when the IDE starts, then after a few seconds it switches to white.
I have tried (with restarts of the program between changes):
Eclipse > Preferences > General > Appearance (Set to Dark or Moonrise)
Eclipse >
Preferences > General > Appearance > Color Theme (Tried many dark themes)
Eclipse > Preferences > General > Editors > Text Editors > (Background Color => Black)
I'm using the PyDev Pluggin, but I've also tried switching to Java and other perspectives and have the same problem. I've tried installing the Moonrise theme, and uninstalling and reinstalling the same as well as the Eclipse Color Theme plugin as well.
Has anyone seen this before and figured out a solution?
Updated:
If I change the IDE to the Java perspective and open a Java file I still have the annoying white background, but in a slightly different way:
I have uninstalled the moonrise theme and I am just using the Dark Theme here. I think this rules out Pydev influencing the colours and it must be something at the general editor level. Though again, I have set the background color to black for the general editor.
MAJOR UPDATE - The bug is somewhat reproducible
Ok, so I haven't solved the problem but I've figured out what's triggering it! When I open Window > Customize Perspective, the background switches to the correct black style and then stays that way until I restart the IDE. That's without me changing any settings, just the mere act of opening that dialog. But why?
I guess my answer to the this post How to change color of Editor in Eclipse works for you.
I think its because of Editbox plugin. Make EditBox Off then check. If not working uninstall EditBox then check.
Its because of conflicts between Editbox colour settings and eclipse theme settings.
From patchnotes, pydev seems to support the eclipse darktheme since 3.6.0 :
http://pydev.org/history_pydev.html
The PyDev editor supports the new dark theme in Eclipse 4.4 (so, when it's chosen the editor colors are properly updated).
I believe the pydev editor has his preferences, so if you want to edit colors for the editor, it might be under :
Window > preferences > PyDev > Editor
You can find some resources to customize the pydev editor (if still not answerint to eclipse dark theme) here : http://pydev.blogspot.fr/2009/07/creating-dark-theme-and-exporting-and.html
You can try disabling pydev editor through file type extension but not sure it will be a nice syntax coloring (window>preferences>pydev>editor>code style>filetypes)
I installed Eclipse Luna. I like what the built-in Dark theme does to all the views surrounding the actual text editor. However, I like to use my own color theme Solarized Dark on the editor and furthermore I'm changing a few highlight-box colors in the Editor Annotation settings. I'm able to make all of those configurations just fine. It takes a few minutes however and every time I start Eclipse again all my color settings are back to the default Eclipse Dark Theme, including text editors, highlights and such.
How can I make the aforementioned settings permanent, as in not having to tweak them again every time I start Eclipse?
in Eclipse, Window -> preferences ,
in General / appearence /Colors and Fonts
For save changes click first on "Apply" and after "OK"
I just installed the Eclipse color theme plugin and when I go to "Preferences-General-Appearance-Color Theme" and choose a new theme it does not change my colors. I am testing this in both the "Web" and "JavaScript" perspectives.
Currently my background color is black (which it was not before, and I in fact have no idea how it got switched). I just want to switch it back to a typical white theme.
Ok, I figured this out. I also have Aptana Studio installed in my Eclipse. Under the settings for Aptana Studio is a category called "Themes". When I changed the theme here my colors finally changed. This also explains why my screen switched to a black background. It must have been the default color theme for Aptana when I installed it. I guess the Aptana Studio themes override the default Eclipse color settings and also the "Color Theme" plugin I installed.