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How do I change hyperlink colors in Eclipse on a Windows 7 machine?


I use a dark color theme (oblivian) with Eclipse (Juno) and can't read the default blue hyperlinks. How do I change them? I went to Window -> Preferences -> General -> Appearance -> Colors and Fonts -> Active hyperlink text color and changed it to cyan but this did not work.

I've seen this question asked/answered for Linux but not Windows.


Solution

  • Turns out it is a Windows system setting. The answer is actually contained in this question but for Windows XP.

    To change in Windows 7: Control Panel -> Display -> Personalization (lower left corner) -> Window Color (bottom middle) -> Advanced appearance settings -> In the Item dropdown choose Hyperlink then choose the color you want. I went with cyan, much better!