Eclipse Luna UI rendering in Linux

Question

I installed Eclipse Luna in Fedora 19 and facing the following problems.

1. Tab headers seems to be big compared to windows installations. I googled and edited .gtkrc-2.0 file in home directory which made tabs smaller. But I'm using High Contrast appearance instead of GTK, to get the dark background. But again the tabs appears big. What is the script I have use or edit to solve this problem.

2. I'm using Dark theme the selection of item in tree is not highlighting. How to solve this ?

3. Tool bar icons seems to be big how to reduce their size?

Answer 1

Start your Eclipse with this .bash script. It will fix the theme bug. It worked for me.

#!/bin/bash

export SWT_GTK3=0
export UBUNTU_MENUPROXY=0
./eclipse -showlocation

Answer 2

In Linux Mint Cinnamon 2.6 Eclipse Mars I was able to get correct tab heights by putting the following in the launcher on the menu:

/opt/eclipse/eclipse --launcher.GTK_version 2

Answer 3

Go to plugins\org.eclipse.ui.themes_1.0.0.v20140527-2218\css in plugins folder in eclipse directory. You should find there css files. I'm not sure which one is set in Luna as default. So you need find it out and change part .MPartStack add swt-tab-height: 20px; font-size: 8; with desired parameters.

//edit Another thing that one my find useful - hiding 'x' on tabs:

CTabItem {
 swt-show-close: false !important;
}