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Eclipse Tweak Guide

1. Turn on dark mode

Go To Window > Preferences > Appearance Then theme select Dark

2. Set Dark mode colors

There are some settings that can be changed only from the Eclipse Preferences window and that override the theme's settings by default:

  • Change the colors for Content Assist:

Go to Window > Preferences > General > Appearance > Colors and Fonts then change the colors for Basic > Content Assist background color and Basic > Content Assist foreground color (eg. foreground color: #DDD, background color: #333);

  • Change the colors for Console:

Go to Window > Preferences > Run/Debug > Console and modify the colors as you like (eg. Standard Out text color: #DDD, Background color: #333);

  • Change the colors for Javadoc:

Go to Window > Preferences > General > Appearance > Colors and Fonts then change the colors for Java > Javadoc view background. Note that the foreground color cannot be changed and depends on system font color.

(taken from the eclipse-ui-theme project)

3. Import a new color theme

This theme is based off of Railscasts and looks letter than the default.

4. Turn down the autocomplete wait period

Go to Window > Preferences > Java > Editor > Content Assist > Auto-Activation

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5. Give Eclipse more RAM

In your shortcut for eclipse add -Xmx2096m at the end to increase the java heap size for eclipse to 2GB.

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