Eclipse fonts and background color

Question

I have been trying to change the background color of eclipses windows to black and customize the font colors. There doesn't seem to be a way to do this at least not an obvious way. I am using version 3.3.

Does anyone know how to do this or of any plugin's that might be able to assist in doing this?

Answer 1

If you go to Windows, Preferences then select General, Editors, Text editors, you can set colors on that property page (and there's a link for setting MORE colors - General, Appearance, Colors and fonts).

That's with an Eclipse 3.3 build anyway.

Answer 2

In Windows or Mac, you can find this setting under the General->Editors->Text Editors menu.

Answer 3

To change background colour:

1. Open Windows>Preferences>Editors>Text Editors
2. Browse Appearance color options
3. Select background color options, uncheck default, change to black
4. Select background color options, uncheck default, change to colour of choice

To Change Text colours

1. Open Java>Editor>Syntax Colouring
2. Select element from Java
3. Change colour
4. List item

To change Java editor Font

1. Open Windows>Preferences>General>Appearance>Colors and Fonts
2. Select Java>Java Editor Text font from list
3. Click on change and select font

Answer 4

Background color of views (navigator, console, tasks etc) is set according to the desktop (system) settings. On Linux/GNome I changed System/Preferences/Appeareance to change this color.

Editor colors are set chaotically by different editors, search for background in eclipse preferences to find different options. One easy way to get beautiful dark (and not only dark) themes is to install Afae plugin, and then pick theme within its preferences (twilight theme is beautiful, for example) - again, eclipse prefs, Afae group. Of course this applies only when you edit with Afae.