Eclipse - changing font size in project/package explorer - linux

I'm using two environments, one with 24" screen, second one with 15". I need default font size of content of project/package explorer in the first one, but small font size for the other one.
Is there any way how to change it within eclipse? I mean not within operating system ? Because it always influences other font size on desktop. I'm reffering to this question.
If there is no way, please describe how would you do it in Linux - distribution independently.

I have a 17 inch Mac Book Pro which is frequently hooked up to 27 inch high res display and the font size in the package explorer was way too small. Eclipse is supposed to respect the OS settings but it turns out on Mac OS X the default setting for eclipse is to use small Fonts rather than the standard os fonts.
on Mac OS X you can change edit the eclipse.ini file and remove -Dorg.eclipse.swt.internal.carbon.smallFonts restart eclipse and presto you will find that your package explorer looks brilliant with reasonable sized fonts.
You make have to use the Finder option "Show Contents" on the Eclipse.app to find the eclipse.ini file, and, the smallFonts line may occur more than once in the .ini file.

For Mac OS X, download TinkerTool from http://bresink.de/osx/TinkerTool.html and then change the font size for "Help tags".
That changed the font size of package explorer for me. :)

I can say pretty confidently that you cannot change that font size from within eclipse, only choice is on the operating system. And on ubuntu you are able to change that font size.

I work in Android development. I have ADT installed which comes which eclipse. The Windows about states that the eclipse installed has following components.
This product includes Eclipse Platform, JDT, CDT, EMF, GEF and WTP,
and Version : 4.2.1.v20130118-173121-9MF7GHYdG0B5kx4E_SkfZV-1mNjVATf67ZAb7
and BuildID : M20130204-1200
With the above version, I am able to change the font within eclipse. The process to change the font is very simple
1) Click on Window menu.
2) Click on Preferences sub menu.
3) Open General tab. (Left navigation)
4) Open Appearances sub tab. (Left navigation)
5) Click on Colors and Font option. (Left navigation)
6) Expand Basic option. (Right panel)
7) Click on Text Font (last option in Basic option)
8) Click on Edit Button.
9) Change the font which you want.
The screen shot of above option looks like...

For windows check below link:
Window > Preferences > General > Appearance > Colors and Fonts > View
and Editor Folders > Tree and Table font for views
https://www.bootng.com/2021/01/change-project-explorer-tree-view-font.html

For linux: Check out this link, it was very useful to me! I'm using the author's favourite option and works seamlessly.
http://techtavern.wordpress.com/2008/09/24/smaller-font-sizes-for-eclipse-on-linux/

For Eclipse Oxygen on Sierra, deleting
-Dorg.eclipse.swt.internal.carbon.smallFonts
from Eclipse.app » Contents » Eclipse » eclipse.ini
didn't change anything visible

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What causes control text to get cut off?

My VB6 application is having a layout problem on certain end user PCs, but so far we are unable to identify what is causing this.
Normal layout:
Broken layout:
The text on the left are the captions of the radio buttons. The text in the upper right is a label.
I am familiar with two different settings in Windows Control Panel which can affect text size, and initially we suspected this was the cause. In Windows 10, they are:
Control Panel >
Appearance and Personalization >
Display >
(1) "Use these display settings" > "Customize your display"
or
(2) "Set a custom scaling level"
(Terminology was different in earlier Windows versions but I think the features were the same?)
However upon testing these settings with our app neither reproduces the problem.
What else might be causing the text layout issue shown in the image?
This appears to be caused by a Windows bug.
The description & fix as mentioned in the source website are as follows:
if you have a high resolution screen at install time, Win7 will install a larger font set (125%) by default. If you then choose go back to the standard font size (100%), Windows will keep some of the large fonts even though everything else is adjusted for standard fonts, causing programs that use these fonts to break because the text will not always fit inside the GUI.
By editing the Windows registry you can get the original, intended fonts back:
Open the start menu and type regedit and then press Enter.
Locate the key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Fonts
Find the value MS Sans Serif 8,10,12,14,18,24
Change from SSERIFF.FON to SSERIFE.FON
Find MS Serif 8,10,12,14,18,24
Change from SERIFF.FON to SERIFE.FON
Finally find Courier 10,12,15
Change from COURF.FON to COURE.FON
Restart your system in order for the changes to take effect!
The exact font names may vary depending on locale settings.
I was able to create the problem scenario as described here on Windows 10, and that reproduced the problem with our VB6 app. I think that confirms this as the fix.
A Microsoft blog post seems to be the authoritative original source of this information.

Eclipse shows less lines in linux

When I use Eclipse in windows it shows approximately 100 lines when editor in full screen, But In linux in shows approximately 50. Font size is bigger in linux so it shows less lines. I checked screen resolution it is same in windows and linux. When I increase resolution in linux Eclipse start showing more lines in editor, but VMWare starts showing scroll bars to access the whole screen. How to show more lines in Eclipse in linux or how to remove scroll bars from VMWare when resolution is increased?
Window > Preference > General > Editors > Text Editors > 'Colors and Fonts'
Select Basic and Text Font, you can edit the font size here for all editors
Also note that the number of lines you see on different platforms doesn't strictly depend only on eclipse configuration, but also on the area of window that eclipse has on each platform. Probably you are using some docker or there is a panel on linux desktop environment which takes too much space and at the end eclipse window gets less space than on windows thats why the number of lines in editor is less than on windows

The font of my modelsim is too small to see

As you can see, the font of modelsim's text editor is very small. But I can't change the size in Tools->Edit Preferences->Source Window->Fonts.
However, I can make the letters bigger by set the DPI higher(through System Settings->Fonts) or set the resolution of the screen to a appropriate value, such as 1024X720, while 1366x768 is the actual resolution of my screen. These ways are not comfortable, because everything else look strange.My OS is Fedora 22, and the version of my Modelsim is 10.3d.
I want to get a more comfortable way to the font-size problem of Modelsim, I'll appreciate it!
I ran into this too in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS with modelsim 10.5 ASE. I fixed it as follows:
Open ~/.modelsim (use "nano ~/.modelsim" in terminal)
Find: PrefDefault = ... textFontV2 {Verdana 12} (the name of the font may differ)
Change 12 to -12, so it will looks like this: textFontV2 {Verdana -12}
Save ~/.modelsim (Ctrl+O and then Enter)
Reopen modelsim
I ran into this too in Xubuntu, just use Ctrl++ or Ctrl+- to enlarge or shrink the text dynamically.
Tools->Edit preferences->source windows-> textFont
I am using CentOS Linux, Questa Sim-64 10.1a and had the same problem. I fixed it as follows :
Select "Tools" option from the toolbar at the top.
From the drop down menu select "Edit Preferences ..."
On the lower left pane, there are various Font types like fixedFont, footerFont, textFont etc. To change the size of textFont, select it and you get the choice of font type and size.
Choose what you are most comfortable with.
menuFont is used for command prompt and treeFont is used to display the folder structure.
On Xubuntu/XFCE4: Going to Settings⟶Appereance⟶Fonts and disabling the "Custom DPI setting" checkbox solved the problem for me.
The strange thing is that xdpyinfo says the screen resolution is 96x96 dpi regardless of the checkbox. Leaving the checkbox on and setting something like 200 dpi scales the Modelsim editor font, but also all other fonts on the screen, so that doesn't help. I didn't dig any further towards the root cause.

How to change toolbars thick on eclipse? (Manjaro Linux - XFCE)

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.

Help with application icons

I'm building a program in C++ (target is windows XP) using Visual Studio 2008 and I'm trying to add application icons, the ones that show up in the taskbar, explorer, desktop, etc. My .ico file has the sizes 48x48, 32x32, 24x24, and 16x16 pix in color depths 32-bit, 24-bit, 256 colors, and 16 colors. For what it's worth, I'm adding the .ico file to the binary in IcoFX.
I can get all the icons to show up like they should except for the one in the upper left corner of the program itself--the one that you can click on to bring up a menu with window size options--it still shows the default icon.
To get this little icon to change do I need a different image size or is there a completely different way of managing this one icon? Does that icon even have a specific name?
Thanks for your help.
Duplicated: How do I set the icon for my application in visual studio 2008?
According to one answer on that thread, you need to make sure that your icon is the first icon in the resources file.
Ok, I've figured it out:
I'm using wxWidgets as my GUI toolkit, so this is the only satisfactory answer I can give. wxWidgets has classes to set the main frame icons, those classes include wxIcon and wxIconBundle. Then wxTopLevelWindow::SetIcons can be used to set the application's icons. This sets ALL the icons (taskbar, main frame, alt-tab chooser, etc), no need to mess with a resource file in Visual Studio.

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