Sunday, April 28, 2013

Replace Eclipse Splash Screen

At work, we are currently using a modified version of the Eclipse IDE, so whenever I open Eclipse I see the company's logo. If you're the type of person who likes to personalize stuff (like me) you can change the Eclipse IDE's default splash screen following the directions below:

1. (This step may be necessary in some distros, specially for modified versions of Eclipse, but not really that important if the file used is still the default) Navigate to the Eclipse configuration file normally located in the  path below:

{eclipseBaseDirectory}\configuration\config.ini

2. Check the location of the splash image as defined in the configuration file (should look like the one below):

osgi.splashPath=platform\:/base/plugins/org.eclipse.platform

Note: The path above is the default path of the splash image, hence if the version of Eclipse that you are using is not modified, chances are the splash image should be here.

3. Navigate to the path defined in the configuration file and replace the file named "splash.bmp"

4. Restart Eclipse and voila!






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