I am trying to work with Eclipse on my laptop - 3200x1800 resolution.
A majority of the icons are practically invisible.
I found two discussions on this very topic:
Eclipse interface icons very small on high resolution screen in Windows 8.1
Eclipse Icons are really small on high resolution screen
Where it can be seen that this is an open issue in the eclipse bug system, yet to be fixed:
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=382972
I tried the workarounds suggested in both discussions:
Using Windows XP compatibility mode didn't work for me since it was removed in Windows 8.1 eclipse version).
Setting a lower resolution results in an ugly result since my laptop is configured to work with high resolution for most applications.
The solution suggested here -
Eclipse interface icons very small on high resolution screen in Windows 8.1
seemed the most promising one. However, even when I observed there are new forks for this GitHub project, and tried the newest one -
https://github.com/PhantomYdn/eclipse-icon-enlarger
it failed for me: I managed to create the jar file as instructed and run it on my Eclipse, however the resulting eclipse.exe fails to run with a message: "The eclipse executable launcher was unable to locate its companion shared library".
By googling this one I found -
Eclipse executable launcher error: Unable to locate companion shared library
which led me to a conclusion that the enlarger just didn't work correctly. Since I don't know Java yet, I'm a bit stuck now.
How do I proceed from here?
Alternatively, is there another solution for my problem?
Thanks!
