Installed dark theme in eclipse, but scrollbars is still grey

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I am using Eclipse Luna(4.4.0) and trying to make it completely dark. So I Installed a theme plugin:

Eclipse menu -> Help -> Eclipse Marketplace, search "Eclipse Color Theme Plugin"

In “Windows Preferences”, selected the “Dark” theme and

Eclipse menu -> Window -> Preference -> General -> Appearance -> Color Theme, choosed “sublime Text 2″. Done, I'm just changed everything to “Dark”.

But, scrollbars is still grey

Does anybody know how to make it dark too?

Thanks in advance!!

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use IntelliJ IDEA. It works. – Mike Nakis
It'd better be if you pay for it. On-topic: this screenshot seems with the entire (windows?) shell modified. You might want to search for an entire dark theme for your OS (you can find a lot of them on deviantart.com) – Pieter De Bie
The scrollbars appear to still be controlled by the OS at this point. For reference of others who visit this question, there is a fix on Ubuntu (set the LIBOVERLAY_SCROLLBAR=1 environment variable). As Pieter mentioned, one possible fix on Windows would be to get a dark Windows theme, assuming you're comfortable with changing your entire OS skin. For more info on the Dark Theme's various bugs and offenses, see here. They really should not have released this feature at all. – Neil Traft
Thanks for your answers. Installed this one alexgal23.deviantart.com/art/SkinPack-Flaty-Win7-450416030 Looks really nice right now! – i474232898

4 Answers

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Eclipse's built in dark theme is very problematic.

Check out the DevStyle plugin from Eclipse marketplace. It creates dark themes up to par with other IDEs like IntelliJ.

https://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/darkest-dark-theme-devstyle

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For all mac users out there, you can change it in system preferences: Apple menu > System Preferences, then click General > Show scroll bars Select “Automatically based on mouse or trackpad.” i voila :)

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  1. cmd+space
  2. System Preferences
  3. General
  4. Show scroll bars: "When scrolling" (see screenshot)

In my opinion though, this isn't a great solution because you don't see the scroll bar sometimes and sometimes it still shows the bright grey scroll bar depending on where you put your mouse.

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If you want to get rid of that scrollbar, enable Show whitespace characters in

Preferences > General > Editors > Text Editors