How to restore default color theme in Eclipse Helios?

Question

I read this question and played with a color theme with dark background. It looks cool in Java editor but not for other editors. Then I tried to use the default color themes by clicking "Restore Defaults" buttons for ALL editors in Preference dialog and refering to this question. But in the file compare view the background is still black and the differences between compared files are hardly to discern.

Any way I can restore the backgound color in file compare view?

Agatha

Answer 1

just remove a few lines which are about color in:

{workspace}/.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.core.runtime/.settings/org.eclipse.ui.editors.prefs

then restart your eclipse, that's it.

Ricks

for those of you who have a version of eclipse that follows this file structure and who also need to reset the xml editor colors, kill the following file: {workspace}/.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.core.runtime/.settings/org.eclipse.wst.xml.ui.prefs – Naashom

Answer 2

Kane's solution works. And user can also just delete

"...\workspace\.metadata\.plugins\org.eclipse.core.runtime\.settings". 

Then restart Eclipse, do a little bit configuration, you are back to default theme.

Bandy

Answer 3

I think the answer is here in the question mentioned by you. The theme plug-in modified below files under your workspace. You could switch to a new workspace, or remove the preference keys about color/font from those files.

Essentially there are two files we want to copy or overwrite:

[workspace].metadata.plugins\org.eclipse.core.runtime.settings\org.eclipse.jdt.ui.prefs [workspace].metadata.plugins\org.eclipse.core.runtime.settings\org.eclipse.ui.editors.prefs

Superhuman

Thanks. But it does not work. I have overwritten those two files, and finally all files in that folder, but the Compare Editor still has black background. However it is clear that the settings are somewhere in workspace, but I hava not found out where. – Agatha

Aptana broke my Eclipse colors too. This fix worked for me. I looked for "foreground" and "background" in all the files in that folder and switched the "248,248,248" and "20,20,20" values for the respective keys. – Occupier

Answer 4

To restore theme to default, remove only

[workspace].metadata.plugins\org.eclipse.core.runtime.settings\org.eclipse.e4.ui.css.swt.theme.prefs

By doing this you will not loose other configurations that you have done,

Like Python interpreter settings.

Perpetrate

This solution worked perfectly for resetting UI changes left behind by Darkest Dark Theme in Eclipse Neon. – Conservative