Change Project Explorer tree view font size in Eclipse

January 31, 2021

Change Project Explorer tree view font size in Eclipse

This article shows how to change the Project Explorer text size and style.
Starting with Eclipse 4.17, Eclipse now supports additional options to change the font and style of the IDE.  Bellow sections shows few examples.

Project Explorer
Change the font of the Project Explorer
Window > Preferences > General > Appearance > Colors and Fonts > View and Editor Folders > Tree and Table font for views

Setting the font size

Result of the Project Explorer




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


Editor Font Size Setting


Editor Content

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Google Style Guide for Eclipse

October 07, 2020

Eclipse Google Java Style Guide

This article shows how to use the Google Java style with Eclipse IDE. Every organization has its own style guide, in the open-source community different projects have a slightly different style guide. In this article, we will see how to use the official google style guide in Eclipse IDE.

Get the Style Guide

Save the style guide which is a XML file to your local drive.
Eclipse Google Style Guide.

Open Eclipse Preference

Opening Eclipse settings varies per OS. For example, on macOS open Eclipse -> Preferences.




Add the Google Style formatter to Eclipse

Import the downloaded XML file.



Configure save actions to automatically format code while saving files.

In the Preferences menu type “save actions”, and select Java -> Editor -> Save Actions.


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