Eclipse - Change Console background color

Question

I applied a theme for eclipse, where the Console's background color is to dark.

If I want to change it by right clicking on the Console -> preferences -> background color the new Color doesnt get applied. Is there a way to apply a new BG Color even when using a theme?

Thanks!

Answer 1

I had a similar problem with luna. Didn't work with the dark 'theme' and similar dark 'color and font theme' - had to reset to classic under main preferences. Then right clicking from within the console does change to the selected colour. Maybe related to this recurring bug in eclipse.

Answer 2

I got the mentioned bug too but after right clicking it was too dark for me since the text colour is black.

The settings for the console background colour are located here:

Eclipse:

Window -> Preferences

Preferences:

-> C/C++ -> Build -> Console

(probably a similar path applies to Java too)

Console:

-> Background color

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There are also two other console background settings in: Preferences: -> C/C++ -> Debug -> GDB -> Console and in Run/Debug -> Console.