Changing the appearance of the Console view

To set the color and font for output to the Console view:

1. From the menu bar, select Window > Preferences.

2. Expand the Debug category and select Console. The Console Preferences page opens.

3. Selecting the Show when program writes to standard out option causes the Console view in the current perspective to become visible each time new output is written to the console from the program's standard output stream. If there is no Console view in the current perspective, one will be created.

4. Selecting the Show when program writes to standard err option causes the Console view in the current perspective to become visible each time new output is written to the console from the program's standard error stream. If there is no Console view in the current perspective, one will be created.

5. Click any of the color buttons to change the color for the corresponding text. The default colors are described in the table below.
    

   Option	Default
   Standard Out	Blue
   Standard Error	Red
   Standard In	Green

    

6. Click the Change button to modify the text font for the console.

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