KP Solutions » eclipse http://www.kpsolution.com/blog Solutions for Day to Day Technical Problems Tue, 24 Aug 2010 02:37:51 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Enable dark background in Eclipse http://www.kpsolution.com/blog/linux/enable-dark-background-in-eclipse/33/ http://www.kpsolution.com/blog/linux/enable-dark-background-in-eclipse/33/#comments Wed, 05 Nov 2008 16:26:08 +0000 Ketan Patel http://www.kpsolution.com/blog/?p=33 Continue reading →]]> I was looking around to find a good source which would allow me to control the background of the eclipse. I like black background with white text as foreground. Doing so in eclipse is not straightforward.

My System setup is:

  • Ubuntu 8.10
  • Eclipse Ganymede (3.4) with CDT

Follow the steps to get black background with white foreground for source code editing part of eclipse.

  1. Select Window -> Preferences -> C/C++ (language editor you need to change for) -> Editor. In the Appearance color options change the following
    • Matching brackets highlight (Color #FFA500)
    • Inactive code highlight (Color #302E2E)
    • Completion Proposal background (Color #000000)
    • Completion Proposal foreground (Color #FFFFFF)
    • Parameter Hint Background (Color #000000)
    • Parameter Hint Foreground (Color #FFFFFF)
    • Source Hover Background (Color #F5F5B5)
  2. Select Window -> Preferences -> C/C++ (language editor you need to change for) -> Editor -> Syntax Coloring
    • In the Code, change all the ones with black color to white and vice versa and leave the rest as they are.

This will give you the colors you want. I know its tedious but that’s the only way to do it at present.

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