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Asked: 2026-05-14T14:46:17+00:00

EDIT: For anyone coming to this question through searching, you can install a Gnome

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EDIT: For anyone coming to this question through searching, you can install a Gnome Theme called Clearlooks Compact to shorten your tabs in Eclipse. This will free up a lot of screen space. You can also check out the answer below to learn how to make the tabs more horizontally compact.

Short version: How do I make a short version of Eclipse’s tabs & toolbars in Ubuntu?

I’ve been looking around for a fix to this on Google, but to no avail. With any GTK theme, I still have this same issue and it’s very, very annoying–to the point where I’ve stopped using Eclipse in favor of gEdit. However, after running pylint from a terminal too. many. times. I’ve decided I need to find a solution to this issues with Eclipse so I can have PyDev back. Here’s what the tabs look like:

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As you can see, not only are the tabs exaggerated, but the toolbar is, too: so is the toolbar on the bottom; so are the tabs in the bottom pane. Overall, it’s eating up a lot of screen space, which is a hard item to come by on a 17″ screen. Any suggestions/fixes?

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  1. Editorial Team

    I too have suffered from this quite a bit, before I found the solution by changing the general appearance of my IDE.

    You can try and customize the look-and-feel or you Eclipse Environment from,

    Go to : Window -> Preferences -> General -> Appearance.

    try setting,

    1. Current Presentation to ” Default “.
    2. Enable ” Traditional Style Tabs ” (for rectangular tabs.)
    3. Disable Animation ( if you don’t like swoosh effect.)
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