I have recently noticed eclipse started to look A LOT different than it used to and I do not like the change. I attached to images of before and after. Does anyone know what might have happened? If this is helps any I upgraded from jdk 7 to jdk 8. I have a youtube channel on coding and I think the font looks bad so I don't want people not watching because of it.
Picture of Before (This is what I want it to look like):
Picture of After (I want this to look like before):
Try re-enabling theming.
Note: You can change the Colors and Fonts there as well. (IntelliJ has a better font IMO, anyway)
If that is broken (and you really care about eye-candy that much) then re-download Eclipse.
I figured everything out. I went to Window -> Preferences -> General-> Appearance then changed theme to windows and colors were set to default then it worked!
To change the font, I went to Window -> Preferences -> General -> Appearance -> Colors and Fonts then changed the font to Consolas.
Then everything was back to normal.
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This bug in the screen looks like this:
I did a lot of research to solve this problem. but I couldn't find a solution on the internet. Everything seemed normal in the program settings as well. ctrl-scroll etc. as in browsers. I tried combinations but none of them worked. I was able to fix it by doing:
run pgadmin.exe
file -> preferences -> miscellaneous -> themes -> theme
When you look at it, you will see that it says standard.
change the theme to dark. and save it.
rechange the theme to standard. and save it.
it will be fixed. :)
I have Eclipse Juno running on my Fedora 17.
When I hover over a function / variable in Eclipse, a box pops up that contains information about that function with the font size of about 30 or 40 units. I have really searched hard to reduce the font size but I JUST CAN'T.
Why am I having this issue?
I know where font settings are for Eclipse IDE. I've changed and tested all options in there to see which might change the font, but none do.
The answer from #tobias_k in the comments helped me get to the correct settings for the dialog box. I'm reproducing it here for easy reference to anyone.
Preferences -> Appearance -> Colors and Fonts -> Java -> Javadoc Display Font
This should get you where you need to be. Just to clarify, that popup for documentation is considered a dialog box so it checks the dialog box font size for this.
Have u tried to change the gnome theme, or whatever your shell is. I have similar problem in Ubuntu, the problem was in background of this window, it was black, and my font was black too, so nothing can be read but when i change my theme everything is fine now.
I've been using the Eclipse color theme plugin, and it's been great so far - However there's one problem/setting I can't seem to figure out how to change - it's occurring when I try to edit javascript in a jsp page - when I choose a dark color theme (Monokai in this case), Eclipse highlights the code with a javascript tag with a light highlight (see attached pic).
Does anyone know if there's a setting I can change in eclipse to change or remove this, or if it's even possible to change?
I ran into this problem as well.
Short Answer:
Window -> Preferences-> MyEclipse -> Files and Editors -> Javascript -> Editor -> Syntax Coloring -> Background
More Answer:
You have to poke around for a while, but it seems like everything is somewhere in the Window -> Preferences path, and not necessarily where other related things are.
There's one section for html, one for jsps, and another for all the javascript inside of both of those, for example. One for global defaults (which others inherit... sometimes), etc. The key phrase to look for is "Editor"- then you know you're probably going to be able to configure the color of something.
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
I have a big usability problem. The suggestions come up with a black background and mostly dark blue writing so it's really really hard to read. I can't find anything in Window-> Preferences -> Appearance that specifically mentions the correction suggestions. I've toyed around with the Ubuntu 'Appearance' settings but none of it seems to affect this. Also, anything that I do attempt to change in the appearances is not changed and has reverted back when I go back into the settings. Is this a bug or am I missing something?
Galileo 3.5.2 32 bit with Android development tools running on Ubuntu 10.04 32 bit.
Ok so after a couple of hours frustration but only minutes after asking this, I found that it was the Gnome window appearance settings after all! The setting can be found in
System -> Preferences -> Appearance -> Theme -> Customize -> Colours.
The Lucid Ubuntu default theme is apparently just bad for Eclipse...