Wed 28 Mar 2007
Eclipse – Show Workspace Location in Title Bar
Posted by admin under Java , eclipse , software[12] Comments
If you have a lot of eclipse workspaces to manage it is helpful to have them shown in the title bar of the window. Is there any setting in the preferences for this? I don’t know, but you can use the -showlocation option at start up:
eclipse -showlocation -vmargs -Xmx700M
February 19th, 2010 at 7:14 am
Thanks for the tip.
June 24th, 2010 at 4:31 pm
Thank you very much. It really helps a lot
August 13th, 2010 at 8:24 am
[...] Eclipse – Show Workspace Location in Title Bar eclipse -showlocation -vmargs -Xmx700M [...]
September 2nd, 2010 at 3:51 pm
It seems the switch has to be the first one placed after ‘eclipse’
November 1st, 2010 at 3:53 pm
How to I remove “Eclipse” or “Rational Application Developer” in the entire text thats generated after the -showLocation? its annoying to see those big words pre-pended to the workspace location in the title bar – so when you ALT-TAB – you’re STILL not able to see which workspace you’re TABBING to – becase the “eclipse” or “Ration app….” eats up the TAB/Tooltip on task bar’ real estate!!
November 24th, 2010 at 6:39 pm
Has anybody found the solution for what Bastich is asking? I have WDSC so the words appended are so much longer than do not allow the workspace location to really show, so it is not useful at all
You can answer me at alonso_baca@hotmail.com
February 15th, 2011 at 5:24 pm
-showlocation doesn’t have to appear first, just before -vmargs so that it doesn’t appear to be a JVM argument.
Also, my Eclipse shows the name of the current Perspective first, so I can change the beginning title bar text by doing Window -> Save Perspective As…
March 22nd, 2011 at 9:30 pm
Wow, -showlocation did the number perfect. Thanks!
October 20th, 2011 at 7:32 am
Works as expected. Thanks a lot for tip.
November 14th, 2011 at 11:07 am
Thanks for that hint!
December 1st, 2011 at 7:45 am
File->Switch Workspace->Other->Under ‘Worksapce Launcher window’ can see our current workspace.
December 6th, 2011 at 7:40 am
It works!! Great job! Thanks a lot!!