How to get an Id Perspective of Eclipse ?

Question

It is possible to launch eclipse with -perspective idPerspective

so how can I get this idPerspective ?

Answer 1

If you are running Eclipse with PDE (Plugin Development Environment), hit ALT+Shift+F2 to use the Plugin Menu Spy. The cursor will change its' shape, now press the desired perspective button and you will get the perspective ID.

Another option is to run a plug-in search (from Search → Plugin). Look for the string "org.eclipse.ui.perspectives" which is the name of the extension point that defines a perspective.

If you don't have PDE, you can search for the same string in the plugin.xml files which are found inside the plugins JARs. If you have a tool that can search within JARs, that would be helpful. Otherwise, you will need to guess which JAR to open for the search (or open all the JARs).