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| <H1>Changing fonts and colors</H1> |
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| <p>By default, the Workbench uses the fonts and colors provided by the operating |
| system. However, there are a number of ways that this behavior can be customized. |
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| <h2>Fonts</h2> |
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| <p>The Workbench lets you directly configure three fonts: |
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| <dl> |
| <dt>Banner Font</dt> |
| <dd>Used in PDE editors, welcome pages and in the title area of |
| many wizards. For instance the New Project wizard uses this font for the top |
| title.</dd> |
| <dt>Header Font</dt> |
| <dd>Used as a section heading. For instance the |
| Welcome page for the Eclipse Platform uses this font for the top title.</dd> |
| <dt>Text Font</dt> |
| <dd>Used in text editors.</dd> |
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| <p>To change these fonts: |
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| <ol> |
| <li>On the main menu bar, click <b>Window > Preferences</b>.</li> |
| <li>Expand the <b>Workbench</b> category and select <b>Fonts</b>.</li> |
| <li>Select the font you want to change.</li> |
| <li>Click <b>Change</b>.</li> |
| <li>Use the dialog which opens to select a font.</li> |
| <li>Click <b>OK</b>.</li> |
| </ol> |
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| <p>Note: You can also click <b>Use System Font</b> to set the font |
| to a reasonable value chosen by the operating system. For example, on Windows this will |
| use the font selected in the Display Properties control panel.</p> |
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| <p>Plug-ins that use other fonts may also provide preference entries to allow them to |
| be customized. For example, the Java Development Tools provide a setting for controlling |
| the font used by the Java editor (<b>Java > Editor > Appearance > Text font</b>). |
| </p> |
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| <p>In addition to the above, some text is always displayed in the system font. For example, |
| the navigator tree always does this. To change the font used in these areas, you can use the |
| configuration tools provided by the operating system (for example, the Display Properties control panel on |
| Windows, or the .Xdefaults file in Motif). |
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| <h2>Colors</h2> |
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| <p>To set the colors used by the Workbench to display error text and hyperlink text: |
| </p> |
| <ol> |
| <li>On the main menu bar, click <b>Window > Preferences</b>.</li> |
| <li>Expand the <b>Workbench</b> category and select <b>Appearance</b>.</li> |
| <li>Select the color you want to change.</li> |
| <li>Use the dialog which opens to select a color.</li> |
| <li>Click <b>OK</b>.</li> |
| </ol> |
| |
| <p>Plug-ins that use other colors may also provide preference entries to allow them to |
| be customized. For example, the searching support provides a setting for controlling |
| the color used to display inexact matches (<b>Workbench > Search > Foreground |
| color for inexact matches</b>). |
| </p> |
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| <p>In general, the Workbench uses the colors that are chosen by the operating |
| system. To change these colors you can use the configuration tools provided |
| by the system (eg. the Display Properties control panel on Windows, or the .Xdefaults |
| file in Motif). </p> |
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| <p><img border="0" src="../images/ngrelc.gif" alt="Related concepts" width="159" height="27"><br> |
| <a href="../concepts/accessibility/fontsandcolors.htm">Fonts and Colors in Eclipse</a> |
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