Change Project Explorer tree view font size in Eclipse Oxygen

Question

I am using Eclipse Version: Oxygen.1a Release (4.7.1a) and I want to enlarge the Project Explorer tree view font size because I have some sight issues and thus I searched many places to enlarge the project tree view font size.

I only founded the font change in project explorer tree view for older eclipse versions releases which are older or equal to eclipse luna version.

for the information I would like to say that this Oxygen version release is latest in Eclipse IDE, please somebody help me.

Solution 1

I assume that it is important for others also, so I am posting this, for below requireds in eclipse ide,

Increase java editor font size

Window Menu -> Preferences -> General > Appearance > Color and Fonts > Java > Java Editor Text Font > Edit & Apply

Increase console output font size

Window Menu -> Preferences -> General > Appearance > Color and Fonts > Debug > Console font > Edit & Apply

Increase xml bean file font size

Window Menu -> Preferences -> General > Appearance > Color and Fonts > Basic > Text Font > Edit & Apply

Increase dialog view font size

Window Menu -> Preferences -> General > Appearance > Color and Fonts > Basic > Dialog Font > Edit & Apply

Increase project explorer tree view font size

If using Windows 7 or higher architecture, then reach to the eclipse home directory, go inside of eclipse\plugins\org.eclipse.ui.themes_X.X.X.vXXXXXXXX-XXXX\css directory, find two css files which are "e4_default_gtk.css" and "e4_default_win.css", open and add below said css script part in tail of above two files, save those and close accordingly,

.MPart Tree {
    font-family: Consolas;
    font-size: 14;
}

if eclipse is opened, restart, it all worked for me on eclipse oxygen.1a release version,

and hope on other OS type, you have to edit the same e4_default_gtk.css and other e4_default_os-type.css, thanks.

Solution 2

There is now (Eclipse 4.17, July 2020) an official setting:

The font used for tree and table views can now be customized with a font preference. This preference is called "Tree and Table font for views" and can be found in Window > Preferences > General > Appearance > Colors and Fonts under the "View and Editor Folders" category.

The Project Explorer is an example of a view that gets affected by this font preference.

Solution 3

I have been searching this for every version of Eclipse and finally I got something which helped me to increase the font size and font type of of the project explorer.

1.go to below path on your local environment

.p2 -> pool -> plugins -> org.eclipse.ui.themes_(version) -> css -> e4_basestyle

2.paste below lines at the end of the file.

Tree {
     font-size: 14px; /* <-- Desired font size */
     font: Consolas;  /* <-- Font you want to have */
}

3. Restart the eclipse
4. You will get the new defined size and font in your project explorer of eclipse.

NOTE : I tried this on latest version of the eclipse on windows 10 and it worked for me. I did not tried on the previous version.

Solution 4

I'm using eclipse-neon on Ubuntu on Windows-10. The graphical interface is not supported by Microsoft at this time, but I have been using Eclipse Neon and it works decently enough. I added the following to the end of one file: eclipse/plugins/org.eclipse.ui.themes_1.1.300.v20161107-1827/css/e4_default_gtk.css:

.MPart Tree {
font-family: Sans Regular;
font-size: 8;
}

My intent was to make the font smaller, and it worked successfully.

Solution 5

Ankit Fulzele's answer helped me with minor adjustments.

I use Dark Theme on Mac and the following worked for me for Eclipse 2019-06:

Add the following lines to ~/.p2/pool/plugins/org.eclipse.ui.themes_{version}/css/dark/e4-dark_basestyle.css

Tree {
        font-family: '#org-eclipse-ui-workbench-TAB_TEXT_FONT';
}

Instead of setting a fixed font, this will pin it to whatever the "Preferences -> General -> Appearance -> Colors and Fonts -> View and Editor Folders -> Part title font" is configured to.

Note: It would make more sense to pin this to another setting, e.g. to "Preferences -> General -> Appearance -> Colors and Fonts -> Basic -> Text Font", but couldn't find the CSS reference for it.

Note: This update will change not only the "Project Explorer" tab, but others as well.

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