Eclipse Luna dark theme, code editor white

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kozla13 picture kozla13 · Jun 30, 2014 · Viewed 61.6k times · Source

I downloaded the new Eclipse Luna (ver. 4.4) and changed to Dark Theme, but the code editor is not changing. See the screen-shot:

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I tried this on MAC, Windows and Linux, always the same result.

Answer

dan carter picture dan carter · Jul 8, 2014

Ok here's what worked for me. (on java 8 JRE on WinXP)

Preferences -> General -> Editors -> Text Editors: Background colour

deselect 'system default' and choose pure black

Now go to 'current line highlight' and make it your favourite shade of grey. RGB 60/60/60 works for me.

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