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| <h1 class="Head">General</h1> |
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| General settings for the Workbench. The term <i>Workbench</i> refers to the desktop development environment. |
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| <p>Each Workbench window contains one or more perspectives. Perspectives contain views and editors and control what |
| appears in certain menus and tool bars. More than one Workbench window can exist on the desktop at any given |
| time.</p> |
| <p class="Para">The following preferences can be changed on the <a class="command-link" href= |
| 'javascript:executeCommand("org.eclipse.ui.window.preferences(preferencePageId=org.eclipse.ui.preferencePages.Workbench)")'> |
| <img src="PLUGINS_ROOT/org.eclipse.help/command_link.svg" alt="command link"> <strong>General</strong></a> preference |
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| <td><strong>Option</strong></td> |
| <td><strong>Description</strong></td> |
| <td><strong>Default</strong></td> |
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| <td>Always run in background</td> |
| <td>Turn this option on to perform long running operations in the background without blocking you from doing |
| other work.<br></td> |
| <td>Off<br></td> |
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| <td>Keep next/previous part dialog open</td> |
| <td>If this option is turned on then the editor and view cycle dialogs will remain open when their activation key |
| is let go. Normally the dialog closes as soon as the key combination is release.</td> |
| <td>Off</td> |
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| <td>Show Heap Status</td> |
| <td>Turn this option on to display an indicator showing information about current Java heap usage.<br></td> |
| <td>Off<br></td> |
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| <td>Workbench save interval</td> |
| <td>The field indicates how often the state of the workbench like perspective layouts and open editors is |
| automatically saved to disk. Set to 0 to disable.<br></td> |
| <td>5<br></td> |
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| <td>Open mode...</td> |
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| You can select one of the following methods for opening resources: |
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| <li class="Item">Double click - Single clicking on a resource will select it and double clicking on it will |
| open it in an editor.</li> |
| <li class="Item">Single click (Select on hover) - Hovering the mouse cursor over the resource will select it |
| and clicking on it once will open it in an editor.</li> |
| <li class="Item">Single click (Open when using arrow keys) - Selecting a resource with the arrow keys will |
| open it in an editor. |
| <p class="Para"><strong>Note:</strong> Depending on which view has focus, selecting and opening a resource |
| may have different behavior.</p> |
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| <td>Double click</td> |
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| <h3 class="related">Related reference</h3><a href="ref-23.htm">Workbench Window Layout</a> |
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