Change overview ruler color in Eclipse

Question

How to change overview rule background color in Eclipse 3.4.0.I20080617-2000 (vertical bar on right of editing window with some annotations) ?

General > Editors > Text Editors > Annotations allows only to change colors of marks itself not background of whole bar.

It looks like my web searching skills are getting weaker since I cannot find it anywhere ...

Answer 1

i added below and works well in eclipse luna & neon. It works

#org-eclipse-e4-ui-compatibility-editor Canvas,
#org-eclipse-e4-ui-compatibility-editor Canvas > * > * {
    background-color: #b5c7ce;
}
    background-color: #e0d2d2;
}

Answer 2

I also faced the problem of not being able to see the colors in the annotations ruler, so I've made a small plugin which enables setting the background color for the ruler. You can D/L it from here: https://github.com/chookapp/AnnotationsRulerBackground

(screenshots at: https://github.com/chookapp/AnnotationsRulerBackground)

Answer 3

It seams to work for me. The only thing to do is to "restart" Eclipse after your change. The overview ruler and the editor will display the selected color

Answer 4

What if you are using eclipse 4, try this. https://github.com/jeeeyul/eclipse-themes

Answer 5

My solution has been to make the text light on a dark background across all text editors. (Window -> Preferences -> General -> Editors -> Text Editors -> Background color => BLACK, and then every 'Syntax Coloring' you need)

This way the annotation colours I choose can be quite highly saturated dark colours - the text is then still legible over the annotation highlight in the text editor, but the marker in the overview ruler is also highly visible (assuming a light window colour in your OS).

The downside of this is that you have to do a lot of customising to get there. (Its worth exporting your preferences for other workspaces if you plan to go down this route.) And its more of a workaround than an answer :-(

Answer 6

You can actually just disable this bar by going to Preferences > General > Editors > Text Editors. Then just uncheck the box labeled "Show range indicator". The annotations will still appear, the bar will take the color of your theme. Solution found there.