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Gigantic Tabs in Eclipse on Ubuntu

Asked 2010-04-30T09:52:13.797
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EDIT: For anyone coming to this question through searching, you can install a Gnome Theme called Clearlooks Compact to shorten your tabs in Eclipse. This will free up a lot of screen space. You can also check out the answer below to learn how to make the tabs more horizontally compact.

Short version: How do I make a short version of Eclipse's tabs & toolbars in Ubuntu?

I've been looking around for a fix to this on Google, but to no avail. With any GTK theme, I still have this same issue and it's very, very annoying--to the point where I've stopped using Eclipse in favor of gEdit. However, after running pylint from a terminal too. many. times. I've decided I need to find a solution to this issues with Eclipse so I can have PyDev back. Here's what the tabs look like:

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As you can see, not only are the tabs exaggerated, but the toolbar is, too: so is the toolbar on the bottom; so are the tabs in the bottom pane. Overall, it's eating up a lot of screen space, which is a hard item to come by on a 17" screen. Any suggestions/fixes?

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In Addition to Ronans answer, it is possible to change the height of the tabs directly in Eclipse Juno.

edit the css file of your current style (e.g. e4_default_gtk.css) and add

CTabFolder {
   tab-height: 16px;
}

Note: CTabFolder ... not add this to CTabFolder Canvas!

answered 2013-02-23T08:57:51.350
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I too have suffered from this quite a bit, before I found the solution by changing the general appearance of my IDE.

You can try and customize the look-and-feel or you Eclipse Environment from,

Go to : Window -> Preferences -> General -> Appearance.

try setting,

  1. Current Presentation to " Default ".
  2. Enable " Traditional Style Tabs " (for rectangular tabs.)
  3. Disable Animation ( if you don't like swoosh effect.)
answered 2010-04-30T10:00:19.740

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