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Eclipse Project Expoloer Active Highlite Color


I'm trying to change the color of the Active selection in Project Explorer because its hard to see. I've tried the options under Window | Preferences | General | Appearance and can change the tab active/inactive color but not the background of selected item in the project explorer. It might be using the OS' (Win10) color settings but I'm not sure. The active color is a light blue and the background is white which makes it hard to see. I want to keep the white background. I'm using Eclipse 2020-09 (4.17.0) out of the box and haven't downloaded or installed any themes. Any ideas?


Solution

  • It looks like Eclipse is taking Win10's Explorer Navigation pane or Tree colors for the Project Explorer. I haven't found a way to change that but the link below suggested turning down the contrast and going from 85% to 75% made all the difference in the world.

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