Just to clarify, I'm not talking about making the background of the editing frame or window dark via:
local G = ...
styles = G.loadfile('cfg/tomorrow.lua')('Zenburn') -- theme
I'm talking about making the background of the Project frame/window, Output window, the menu bar, etc., all dark too.
Is this possible to do without using Windows's high-contrast theme for everything?
Thank you.
I don't think this is possible, as it relies on wxwidgets to draw those windows and wxwidgets uses system-provided colors to draw them (without much if any user control).
I opened a wxwidgets ticket that would implement re-configuring system colors, but there hasn't been much movement on it.
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I want to make a transparent background in Text Editor,Like Sublime I want to text while reading text on youtube.
This feature varies in different editors. You can check in Preferences if they allow that
I am on a Linux Mint 21 Cinnamon machine and my search for a solution lead me to Micro ( https://micro-editor.github.io/ ) and Nano (in package repository).
Micro is a text editor running in a Terminal which with an appropriate color scheme (with not set default background/foreground color) inherits the background transparency from the GNOME Terminal.
The transparency doesn't work 100% of the time (showing desktop background in spite of opened windows covering it),so sometimes the Terminal or Micro must be restarted to keep the proper functioning of the transparency, but most of the time it works as expected allowing to read through it while typing.
Currently Micro and Nano are the only text editors known to me that are open source and free and come with such feature.
While my search for a Python debugger on Emacs remains unfulfilled, I am giving PyCharm CE a test drive.
Already on my second day I'm encountering a trivial but frustrating point. Is it possible to set the background to be pitch black in just one place?
A program written by programmers for programmers should certainly have included a feature such as "change the background for Docstrings, Comments, Keywords, ... the whole shebang" to black, but I don't see it.
I understand of course that some parts of the UI will stubbornly refuse to change, and I'm OK with that, just so long as the Python code itself appears on a pure black background.
The Twilight and Mokokai themes come close, but their backgrounds still leave ample "contrast room" that could be used by darkening the background color.
(How do we get from left to right... err.. I mean.. how do we get darker than we are.. um, wait... Isn't the version on the right so much easier on the eye.. but anyway, how can we do it?)
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The exact same problem and solution apply to Android Studio.
In File > Settings:
Go to Editor > Colors & Fonts > General
Choose the theme you want to modify (will likely need to Save As... your own as you can't modify the default color schemes.
Go to the Text > Default Text colors and change the background to black. The only ones that won't be affected are the syntax highlighters that define their own background (usually select/highlight/errors/etc.)
so I want to make eclipse to look a little more "compact", this, referring to the toolbar thickness. I've changed the tabs width and font size following the instructions here: Eclipse Luna UI rendering in Linux
I'd like to know if there's a way to change also that "gap" on the toolbars so I can get a little more space.
Here's a SS of my eclipse running: http://www.subeimagenes.com/img/ss-1138171.png
and I want to remove or reduce that gap I'm putting on red, any help/comment would be nice.
Thanks in advance!
Since eclipse 4.x you can modify the look and fill of controls and workspaces using CSS. See this Eclipse 4 CSS Styling- Tutorial it should help.
if i use a dark theme then links in Eclipse-"quick fix" or in i.e. Eclipse->Preferences->General->Editor (the three 'see... "File Associaton"|"Content Types"|"Appearance"'-links) are unreadable.
On this image the links i am talking about are cyan on grey:
I found a solution for Windows/XP:
The hover uses the same colors as the on your system. On Windows you
can change that via Display settings > Appearance > Advanced: ToolTip.
The link color is the one used in your browser (IE on Windows).
However, i need a solution for Linux (XFCE 4.8.1/GTK)
I checked/tested all settings of Eclipse and i found no setting for this link-color. It seems to be a system-setting (GTK), so i already tried to add this to gtkrc:
style "default" {
GtkWidget::link-color = "#ffffff"
}
class "GtkWidget" style "default"
but this did not change the link color in Eclipse.
I hope you can help - thanks!
GNOME
http://devblog.virtage.com/2013/06/eclipse-and-eclipse-based-apps-on-ubuntu-13-04-desktop-hacks/
KDE
Use the colors menu (the first entry in the picture):
And redefine the tooltip background color:
Then enjoy the readable popups:
Install gnome-color-chooser and customize the tooltip color as described here:
http://www.devsniper.com/black-tooltip-in-eclipse-on-ubuntu-12-04/
I'll chime in here, since I have the same issue.
There is no fix for this, when running Eclipse on Unix (KDE, Gnome, etc).
The color for links, which is used in the QuickFix list as well as various other places in the UI (such as Preferences panels), is hardcoded.
On Windows, you are luckier, since Eclipse uses the native link widget, which takes its colors from system settings.
On non-Windows, you are stuck with a dark-blue hardcoded color.
What it should do, at least on GTK, is use the GtkWidget::link-color setting. But it doesn't, currently.
If you want to see it fixed, either upvode this bug or fix the code yourself:
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=130444
Sad, I know ):
Check out this post https://stackoverflow.com/questions/96981/color-themes-for-eclipse or have a look at the Eclipse color themes site.
I am working on embedded system, with own windowing system and rendering library. Before someday when I installed Ubuntu, to my surprise it has LCD subpixel rendering. It really looks cool to have it on my device. Because it is very readable.
Currently I ask for particular glyph in freetype, freetype gives me one memory buffer with values of alpha, with that it is not possible to have subpixel rendering. What I have is normal antialiazed font. As in subpixel - rendering left most pixel of font is anti-aliazed with Red and Rightmost with Blue ( Assuming Screen is RGB ).
Is there any methods with which freetype can give me information that whether current pixel is left or right or centerone?
Thanks, Sunny.
freetype can do it
As you point out, the desktop environment you're using (GNOME, KDE, whatever) may implement this. The setting for it varies by environment.
As to how to do it in your own code, you can use the same routines the window manager does (Gtk+ on GNOME, Qt on KDE, etc.), or you can use a separate library like FreeType or SDL_ttf. Antialiasing -- the generic term for this, as ClearType is a patented algorithm specific to Microsoft -- is usually optional in these libraries, disabled by default for speed.
I think that libcairo is at the bottom of most GTK applications in Ubuntu that do antialiasing. I think that whether subpixel rendering is done specifically for an LCD screen is something the user chooses, not the application author. The user controls it through the "Fonts" tab of "Appearance Preferences" in System -> Preferences -> Appearance (which can be run manually as the binary "gnome-appearance-properties") and clicking on the "Subpixel smoothing (LCDs)" option.
Maybe there's a way that an application can override this setting for themselves? Not sure why they'd want to, though, since an app doesn't control what kind of display the user is using.