Eclipse on MacOS

By default, runtime instances of Eclipse will start with large fonts. To get rid of this behaviour, just add -Dorg.eclipse.swt.internal.carbon.smallFonts to the VM arguments of the respective launch configuration.

I guess it might be a good idea if PDE UI could transparently add this parameter to Eclipse launch configurations - I opened a bug to get this fixed.

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  1. on October 2, 2008 at 12:56 am Eclipse - You live and learn. | form follows function wrote:

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