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Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Solved - Eclipse looks good in Ubuntu Now!

This is a follow up post that solved an issue I had. This post will also illustrate how to run a GTK application on a different theme
Recently I posted that Eclipse on Ubuntu is the Ugly Betty. I was looking for a Theme that would make it look better(and a way to use it only for eclipse).

A digg commentor suggested that I get Clearlooks Compact Theme.
Another commentor (Victor Ott) suggested that I install a plugin That will save some screen real estate. I tried both. While the plugin is good, It makes eclipsel lose its easthetics. I then saw this post. So I improvised a little more.. Mixed all the ideas.

First get the Libertarian fonts, as described in max's post. (They are really good indeed, I even made them my gnome defaults).
Then, Download this archive and extract in the eclipse directory. And "chmod 755 ec" . Thats it! run ec instead of eclipse.

What this does:
The gtkrc-sar is a theme rc for GTK engine. Think of it as a CSS in HTML page, to GTK application.
ec is just a script that starts up eclipse with gtkrc-sar by setting the local environment variable GTK2_RC_FILES

Here is how it looks in human theme:


I have (a little personalised) dust theme, Black title bars - Libertarian fonts, et al. And here is how it looks:
Eclipse - after - with liberation fonts

6 comments:

  1. Cool, only one question, what you did to make the menu white using dust's theme??

    Mine is black.
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  2. @Alex It is in my theme itself.

    If you want you can also keep it specific to eclipse.. (any gtk app for that matter) You can modify the gtkrc file for desired effects.
    For more info on how to modify gtkrc, look up
    http://www.google.co.in/search?q=gtkrc+howto&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8
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  3. Very nice. I had to tweak the font size so I could actually read it :-) but Eclipse is much thriftier with my screen real estate now
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  4. Thanks a lot! That was really helpful! One thing that kinda sucks, that this theme doesn't apply to editor fonts, but it's much easier to fix.
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