Changing UI color in Eclipse

Question

I'm aware of color themes for Eclipse: I've used it to change most of the editor colors, and that's great.

But that wasn't enough, there's still too much white. How to change it? (It hurts my eyes.)

I've searched in the preferences (both using Eclipse itself and editing the files) for instances of white (255,255,255) and changed them all. Looks like I'm missing something.

Answer 1

Each time you see white or gray color, this is more than likely related to OS system colors.

In other word, to truly have an Eclipse full dark theme, you need first to have a dark theme for your OS, and then your Eclipse will follow.

Here is an example on a Windows7, modifying just one parameter:

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Answer 2

Probably not the answer you're looking for, but the IntelliJ community edition is an excellent free IDE and is very easy to use. The background colours can be set and changed to many colours. There are also a number of free plugins which can customize backgrounds and the look and feel. Well worth a look if you don't find exactly what you're looking for with Eclipse.