I'm struggling to run any plugin that makes Eclipse IDE more "dark". I tested both:
http://rogerdudler.github.io/eclipse-ui-themes/
https://raw.github.com/guari/eclipse-ui-theme/
But the problem is that under Cinnamon buttons background doesn't change. But for instance tabs from tabbed pane does. Here you have screenshot how it looks like
Any idea how to fix that?
Some mint themes come with controls.
In Linuxmint 17:
install cinammon theme delorean-dark or D-dark_smaragd (I prefer the first one)
quit and restart cinnamon-settings
now you should be able to select delorean-dark or D-dark_smaragd for controls on other-settings tab
Eclipse is fine now, but synaptic looks theird after that (gnome 3 fallback theme):
themes are installed to ~/.themes - so I copied them to /root/.themes
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Netbeans 12.1 no longer respects the --fontsize directive in the /etc/netbeans.conf config file.
The menu fonts are way too small on a large screen.
Yet setting Preferences->LXQt Settings->Font->Point size in the Ubuntu control menu, which is normally respected by most Unix app windows, does not carry through either.
And although Netbeans's
Tools->Options->Fonts & Colors->Profile: NetBeans->Syntax->All Languages->Default -> Font
setting changes the font for the code itself inside the editor, it doesn't change the IDE menus.
You would think, after all these years, that there would be a command inside the Options to change the menu font size, but it's still not there yet.
And now editing config to change the --fontsize startup option is no longer respected.
How best to change the size of all the system fonts in the Netbeans IDE display environment?
The best solution I've found so far is to change the Look & Feel.
Invoking aptitude install netbeans currently (Sept '20) gives version 10, which breaks with a jcraft/jsch error, also "could not successfully run the /usr/bin/g++ compiler" on my system even though g++ is perfectly fine and protections cleared, also "Build Host not connected", after C++ is installed from the 8.2 repository. Tastes like some kind of jdk error (I've got /usr/lib/jvm both 8 and 11 jdks installed, hard to believe it can't find them). But if the install doesn't work right out of the box, it's a bad sign. So I tried snap install netbeans --classic . This gets version 12.
Netbeans version 12 comes with the Metal Look & Feel configured by default. Changing this to the GTK+ look and feel, using Tools->Options->Appearance->Look and Feel->GTK+ with a restart, finally got the menus to the correct system size.
Unfortunately, the Help->About popup still does not respect this, having minuscule fonts. Perhaps there is a better way?
Although "Look and Feel" is an improvement, I would still like to see direct control of the IDE menu fonts. From the Options Fonts & Colors menu.
Running netbeans from commandline with an additional argument --fontsize 12 works for me. Open a console and go the bin directory of netbeans and use the command ./netbeans --fontsize 12. Change the font size to whatever suits you.
In Netbeans in Tools->Options->Appearance->Look and Feel, I could solve the problem.
But in my case, the selected option already was GTK+. Changing to Metal solved it.
Install Netbeans 13.
It should help
I wanted to know how to add a nice dark theme to my Ubuntu 16.04 desktop. I have tried looking up some sites, but to no use. I looked at https://askubuntu.com/questions/800730/dark-gtk-theme-for-ubuntu-16-04-unity, but I couldn't find the repositories there. I looked at openSUSE site but couldn't find how to activate the theme that I've installed. I'm new at Ubuntu. Can anyone please give a detailed answer on which themes are the best, the installation and the activation steps?
First of all, to install themes, you'll need an app called unity-tweak-tool
Open the terminal by using the CTRL + ALT + T shortcuts, and type sudo apt install unity-tweak-tool and enter your password to continue. To launch the app, type unity-tweak-tool. If you click the themes icon, you will see all the available themes on your desktop.
...the installation and the activation steps?
Here is a nice tutorial to install themes on your ubuntu by itsfoss
Can anyone please give a detailed answer on which themes are the best...
Arc dark theme by noobslab is a great, dark theme. I just installed it and i loved! Its "mixed" with the default look of ubuntu 16.04 LTS. Here is another picture. It also has its own icon theme! (which im not using)
The downloads, and the installation steps can be found on Noobslab page
I have some problems with eclipse indigo x64 Linux; The problem is using windowbuilder (the SWT); I tried using gwt or swing but they both cause either windowbuilder freeze or even eclipse crash...
The alike issue it seems I found related info in official eclipse indigo offline Help which says :
How can I prevent the preview window from flashing under Linux using Metacity
In order to create the graphics that you see in the design view,
WindowBuilder Pro creates an off screen window containing the various
widgets and they takes a screen snapshot of them. This works very well
under Windows, OSX and some versions of Linux. Recent versions of the
Metacity window manager (more recent than 2.1.4), however, have been
modified/"fixed" to disallow windows to be opened off screen. This
forces the preview window to appear on screen leading to an annoying
flashing effect any time you make a change. The solution is to disable
the Metacity "fully_onscreen" constraint by patching the Metacity
source code and rebuilding and installing the patched version into
your system.
Here are the steps to follow:
Download the Metacity source code from ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/metacity/
Unpack the source code tarball into any temporary directory.
Chdir into this directory (with the unpacked code).
Find window.c file and open it with your favourite texteditor.
Find a line with "window->require_fully_onscreen = TRUE;"
Replace it with "window->require_fully_onscreen = FALSE;"
Save the changes and close the editor.
Open a terminal and chdir into the directory with the source code (nice if you have already done this)
Run "./configure".
Run "make all".
Make sure that steps 9 & 10 completed without errors.
Become root (or execute the next command via "sudo" depending on the Linux you are running)
Run "make install" (or "sudo make install").
Save your work and close any application you are working with.
End your session (or press Ctrl-Alt-Delete to restart the x-server) and log in again.
You are done!
well seems like I have the snapshot really but, as I can get it, the snapshot doesn't want to dispose or similar so I have either resize the whole eclipse or press F5 to refresh (which works not at once);
I am not sure how to fix the issue in case I have xfce+adwaita installed? I don't have metacity installed; Seems like xfce works with gtk instead of metacity (correct me if I am wrong);
So my question is... how to fix the "window flashing or freezing" if I have :
xfce4
adwaita-dark theme
linux arch x64ce
Thanks
Try to install install libswt-gtk-3-jni and libswt-gtk-3-java.
I updated to Eclipse Mars. Now if I hover over methods I have black text on black background. Before updating from Luna I had yellow background, black text. How can I configure this hover over for methods? I am on Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS.
The best workaround I have is this:
export SWT_GTK3=0
before starting eclipse. (You can also do: SWT_GTK3=0 ./eclipse)
Alternatively, you can now also do:
./eclipse --launcher.GTK_version 2
I found all GTK3 modes to be barely usable, and in a mess.
The "dark" (emo) mode still works somewhat, because there seem to be some hardcoded colors somewhere (ouch). I wish they would test better. This is just unusable. And I wish the GNOME people would stop breaking their stuff all the time, too. I hate everything they have been doing the last few years... they are totally designing their UI for a different audience than developers.
When trying out different themes/engines always restart eclipse completely (not using the "restart" menu) to make sure to pick up new environment variables etc.
You can set this as default, by adding export SWT_GTK3=0 into your $HOME/.profile which will usually be read on login (i.e. this will only be effective if you logout and login again).
I had similar problem. so i decided to install eclipse mars using oomph installer . guess what !! finally i have my eclipse without any GTK 3 problems.
Give it a try there is much more what oomph offers.
I'm using Fedora 22 Workstation with GNome
I was running eclipse on Ubuntu Linux. What I have noticed is some icons were missing for File->New->(the items appear in submenu) package,folder,etc. Is this the problem with Ubuntu linux or all the eclipse which is installed on linux?
Thanks
Bhanu
Many later versions of Gnome have menu icons disabled by default (my refresh icon is gone as well). If this is your problem you can get them back by using:
Select System > Preferences > Appearance from the menu.
This displays a tabbed panel, labeled 'Appearance Preferences'.
Select the Interface tab, and check the "Show icons in menus".
Select Close.
The menu icons should be back.
See http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1246454
Sigh. also https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=539993
I had the same problem earlier I have ran the below steps and it got fixed. Try to re-install eclipse by giving the below commands
sudo apt-get remove eclipse then
sudo apt-get install eclipse
Let me know if it resolves. Good Luck :-)
This worked for me:
gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.xsettings overrides "{'Gtk/ButtonImages': <1>, 'Gtk/MenuImages': <1>}"
Source: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=185714