Can I make IntelliJ IDEA look more like Eclipse?

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Eclipse and IDEA are using different UI toolkits (SWT vs SWING), so it would be hard to make it look the same.

As @Shakedown said, changing Look&Feel in Settings | Appearance is one of the options. Note that Java allows to install additional third-party Look&Feels.

Editor font is configured in Settings | Editor | Colors & Fonts. Fonts are rendered by the JVM, so it shows any TTF fonts that it can find. If for some reason not all your system TTF fonts are visible, you need to copy *.ttf files into JDK_HOME/jre/lib/fonts. After restarting IDEA you’ll be able to choose new fonts. Fonts missing some Unicode characters required for proper code display will not be listed.

Check out the list of most popular programming fonts. However, Java can render TTF fonts only and it may be hard to find TrueType versions of some fonts. My favorite font is Consolas (provided with Windows).

As for the color schemes, you can Google several contributed presets in the XML format, like this one. Download the linked XML, rename it to Cobalt.xml, place the file in ~/.IntelliJIdea90/config/colors directory. Restart IDEA, select Cobalt scheme in Settings | Editor | Colors & Fonts.

Another nice color scheme is VibrantInk.

It’s also possible to disable side tool window bars, menu bar, etc to make IDEA look like simple editor if you’d like so, even editor tabs can be completely hidden.

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