I've applied a custom code coloring theme to eclipse 4.3 (Kepler), but there is this annoying thin vertical white line separating code and line numbers. Is it possible to change it's color somehow?
I'm on Ubuntu 13.10 (Saucy Salamander) 64bit, Java 1.7_45 64bit
UPDATE: I've installed Chrome Theme which allows certain customisation, so I was thinking maybe there is a css to change that line color?
That white (it's not white actually but #F8F8F8) line was haunting my dark theme. Google sent me here but couldn't find a working solution. But I found some clues as to where to look for a solution. If you're running Eclipse on Windows 7, there's a file called e4_default_win7.css inside one of the folders. Just search for it.
In that file the last section is,
CTabFolder Canvas {
background-color: #28446a;
}
Just change the color there. That'll solve the problem. I actually did this for my TrueStudio Eclipse IDE. But this leaves another problem. The text is too close to the line numbers and I don't know how to change the margin between them!
Screenshot - see what I'm talking about
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I installed the Eclipse Moonrise UI and the results are great, except a couple things become unreadable for me. Here is an image of what my project explorer window looks like. I have 2 git repositories which have black text, making it very difficult to read on the dark background. The normal files and folders have light text, but when selected, it becomes completely unreadable because the selected item's background is very light. Also my scroll bars are light (unlike what is seen on the front page of the above link).
I am unable to locate where I can adjust these settings.
On the other hand, the Outliner window has light text on the dark background and when selected becomes dark text on a light background. Not the way it is supposed to look with this plugin, but it's fine, I can read it.
I am running Kepler Service Release 2 on windows 7 x64.
Except for scrollbars that are forced by OS theme, try to import the epf file as suggested on project page. The settings contained in that epf will influence the syntax highlighting (foreground/background colors) for code editors but also custom colors for other views (eg. console, git filenames, etc.).
If instead you're using CDT, unfortunately the issues with package explorer and outline file names cannot be solved now, because those colors are hard-coded in that package and requires a fix in CDT bundle for them before.
I was looking at this dark theme post and applied Moonrise theme on Eclipse Juno. I love everything it lays out except for the expandable arrow color. It's barely visible when my mouse isn't hovered. Does anyone know if this is possible to change?
As Spyros has mentioned, the author noted that the arrows color is impossible to change which is unfortunate.
Regardless, if you don't mind working under old graphic properties (yay!), the system arrow is replaced with a white box plus sign which makes everything visible. The drawback is, of course, the Windows 7 theme is gone. Found this by accident when trying to solve the performance issue: Look at Pyree's solution
I am afraid that is not possible due to the limitation of the css engine used to theme eclipse, according to the theme's author. (github)
Recently after scorching my retinas from the garish white background in Eclipse, I found some of the excellent posts about how to change the colors so it uses sane (i.e. dark background) colors in the editor. However, one problem present in all solutions is that background of the column with the expanders for code folding is always white. Is there a way to change the background of that column?
I'm not the only person that has this problem, as shown in the screenshots for the following questions:
Dark Color Scheme for Eclipse
Color Themes for Eclipse (application of color schemes results in this issue on a Mac, no idea about PC)
I know that the problem is not language specific as it happens in Java, Python, HTML, and everything else. Any hints on where in the pages of preferences this setting is?
This is related to Eclipse Bug 62712 which is fixed in build 20090329-2000 almost a year ago. In my Galileo of build 20090920-1017 it just works when I change the background color through General > Editors > Text Editors. Here's a screen (don't pay attention to the ugly color combo, my bg defaults to white and I just picked random yellow to demonstrate that the ruler background get changed as well):
In other words, just upgrade your Eclipse to include this bugfix. Did you check Help > Check for Updates?
I've found that setting a dark color theme in Eclipse makes the function tooltips unreadable.
This is probably easiest to describe with a picture:
alt text http://img256.imageshack.us/img256/9503/blahi.gif
Any ideas how to fix this?
The best solution i've found is to leave eclipse in normal bright mode, and use an OS level screen inverter.
On OSX you can do command-shift-8 (i think that's the key combo), inverts the whole screen
on linux with compiz, it's even better, you can do windows-n to darken windows selectively. (or windows-m to do the whole screen)
on windows, the only decent solution i've found is powerstrip, but it's only free for one year.. then it's like $30 or something..
then you can invert the screen, adjust the syntax-level colours to your liking, and you're off to the races, with cool shades on.
If you are running Eclipse in Ubuntu or other environment where it uses GTK+ themes, you can follow this guide to edit the tooltip and autocomplete colours from outside Eclipse. Not the ideal solution, but it does the trick.
Does any of you have a clue on how to change the cursor color in Zend Studio 7.0 on Mac OS X?
I am asking because I really fancy dark colored themes. After a few hours I managed to port my favorite theme from TextMate.app. However my cursor is still black, which is somehow troublesome.
As you can see here - http://twitpic.com/f7ywc - the cursor becomes pretty invisible, right?
Please help me out here.
Btw - anyone interested in the theme?
All the best
I love TextMate and its twilight theme, so this issue is dear to me. I think Eclipse for Mac just can't set the caret color due to an SWT bug.
In the meantime, you can enable line highlighting to make just the current line have a slightly lighter background. This worked for me:
Open Preferences and go to General -> Editors -> Text Editors
Check "Highlight current line"
In the scrolling list at the bottom, set "Current line highlight" to a medium-dark gray.
Actually, a much better solution for Eclipse 3.5 is to use the Carbon build instead of Cocoa. Cocoa seems to force a black cursor but I didn't have this problem with Carbon. To my surprise it's also a lot faster to scroll through code in Carbon.