Eclipse – How to change the background color for the the Eclipse 3.5 editor

To change background colour

1. Open menu *Windows → Preferences → General → Editors → Text Editors
   • Browse Appearance color options
   • Select background color options, uncheck default, change to black
   • Select background color options, uncheck default, change to colour of choice

To change text colours

1. Open Java → Editor → Syntax Colouring
   • Select element from Java
   • Change colour
   • List item

To change Java editor font

1. Open menu Windows → Preferences → General → Appearance → Colors and Fonts
   • Select Java → Java Editor Text font from list
   • Click on change and select font

It seems that your best bet is to redefine the java user.name variable either at your command line, or using the eclipse.ini file in your eclipse install root directory.

This seems to work fine for me:

-showsplash
org.eclipse.platform
--launcher.XXMaxPermSize
256M
-vmargs
-Dosgi.requiredJavaVersion=1.5
-Duser.name=Davide Inglima
-Xms40m
-Xmx512m    

Update:

http://morlhon.net/blog/2005/09/07/eclipse-username/ is a dead link...

Here's a new one: https://web.archive.org/web/20111225025454/http://morlhon.net:80/blog/2005/09/07/eclipse-username/