Change Eclipse sidebar vertical scope highlighting

Question

I just installed Ubuntu after using Eclipse on Windows 8 for some time. The only thing I can\'t figure out how to modify is the color of the vertical bar when you\'re worki

Answer 1

This is called as Range indicator.You can switch off the range indicator.

How:

Click Windows > Preferences. Navigate to General > Editors > Text Editors. De select Show Range indicator option.

How to change the color:

Color of range indicator is controlled by OS not by eclipse.

• Install gtk-theme-config tool from Ubuntu software centre. Change the Highlight background color. Logout and login again.

• You can also do this by installing dconf-editor as said here

After change:

Note that this will change the selection colour in other applications also like nautilus, Firefox etc.

How to apply this only to eclipse:

Somewhere on your home directory, create a gtkrc file (like: ~/.gtkrc-eclipse) with following content:

gtk-color-scheme = "selected_bg_color:#0AFC02\nselected_fg_color:#FFFFFF\norginal_selected_bg_color:#f07746\ntooltip_bg_color:#f5f5c5\ntooltip_fg_color:#000000"

style "range-indicator"
{
    base[SELECTED]    = @selected_bg_color
}
class "GtkWindow" style "range-indicator"

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Launch eclipse from command line like,

env GTK2_RC_FILES=/usr/share/themes/<Your current theme>/gtk-2.0/gtkrc:/home/<user name>/.gtkrc-eclipse '

env GTK2_RC_FILES=/usr/share/themes/Ambiance/gtk-2.0/gtkrc:/home/chandrayya/.gtkrc-eclipse '/opt/eclipse-3.3/eclipse'

You can find out your current theme by executing,

gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.interface gtk-theme

Note that is also changes the text selection background and foreground colour in editor, we can't avoid it.