eclipse : how to differentiate/distinguish different open workspaces

Question

I will need to use multiple workspaces for a recent project. Each workspace might consist of 10 or more projects.

When I'm switching between various applications and different eclipse instances(for the multiple workspaces), I want to be able to distinguish a given workspace easily without having to spend 5 seconds to know from the open file, etc.

What facilities are available to quickly know which workspace I'm in ?

Answer 1

You could use also the OS for this to setup different workspaces, with diff, background or so. Where you have in each workspace a Eclipse running, with a diff workspace.

Answer 2

Use the -showlocation command line argument when starting Eclipse. This shows the current workspace name in the window's title. You can also put the argument in the eclipse.ini file.