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Asked: 2026-06-06T21:04:36+00:00

Eclipse Juno – In my workspace I have ‘Package Explorer’ opened on the left

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Eclipse Juno – In my workspace I have ‘Package Explorer’ opened on the left side, on the right side I have 6 visible file tabs and under ‘Show List’ I have 17 files.

Out of those 6 visible file tabs, I’m working on the 3rd file (abc.java) and If I pick up a file under ‘Show List’ (xyz.java), then eclipse displays xyz.java as active tab and the next 5 files from the Show List. My previous visible file tabs are gone and now I have a new set of visible file tabs. Is there a way to have my previous active file ‘abc.java’ under visible file tabs with my current active file as ‘xyz.java’

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  1. Editorial Team

    I think I just had the same problem and I solved it by switching the theme.

    Go to Preferences -> General -> Appearance and switch to the Classic theme.

    I can’t understand why this helps, but it worked for me.

    Update:

    After being bitten by this again I checked again and as @anweibel says in his answer this can be edited in the CSS.

    I just installed the E4 CSS editor plugin using the Eclipse Marketplace so that I could change the CSS directly from Eclipse under Preferences -> Apperance. I changed swt-mru-visible from false to true so that the relevant part for the GTK theme looked like this:

    .MPartStack {
    font-size: 11;
    swt-simple: false;
    swt-mru-visible: true;
}

    A restart was required for the changes to take effect.

    More info can also be found here: Eclipse tabs repositionning

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