How to change column background color using extenders in Eclipse?

Question

Recently, after I set fire to my retinas from a bright white background in Eclipse, I found some of the excellent posts on how to change colors so that the editor uses the correct colors (dark background). However, one problem present in all solutions is that the background of the column with extenders for code folding is always white. Is there any way to change the background of this column?

I am not the only person who has this problem, as shown in the screenshots for the following questions:

• Dark color scheme for Eclipse
• Color themes for Eclipse (applying color schemes leads to this problem on Mac, don’t know about PC)

I know that the problem is not dependent on the language, as it happens in Java, Python, HTML and everything else. Any hints about where this setting is on the settings pages?

Answer 1

This is due to the Eclipse Bug 62712 , which was fixed in build 20090329-2000 almost a year ago. In my Galileo build 20090920-1017, it just works when I change the background color using General> Editors> Text Editors. Here is the screen (ignore the ugly color combination, my bg is white by default, and I just chose a random yellow color to demonstrate that the background of the line also changed):

In other words, just upgrade Eclipse to enable this fix. Have you checked Help> Check for Updates?