Eclipse Juno and Retina Resolution

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Is it possible to have Eclipse Juno display at retina resolution? I was able to edit info.plist for previous versions of Eclipse, but this does not work with Juno...

score 76 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 23 '12 at 15:13

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Open the <Installation Directory>/Eclipse.app/Contents/Info.plist with a text editor and add the following before </dict>:

<key>NSHighResolutionCapable</key> <true/>

If you open the Info.plist file with Xcode it should look like that:

Info.plist file after enabling high resolution

Now make a copy of the Eclipse application (Eclipse.app). You can copy it to the same directory it already is; this step is required just to make the OS reload the changes in the Info.plist file.

answered Oct 23 '12 at 15:13

Douglas

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good tutorial - key thing is that you have to make a copy of the app for the changes to take effect – ina Oct 24 '12 at 03:20
Great! But, I'm wondering why this trick doesn't work for other apps (I tried the same for TextWrangler and the text is still displayed blurry) – daveoncode Jan 21 '13 at 14:05
You won't be able to use this approach with all applications. In fact, most applications that are already retina-compatible won't require you to do anything. – Douglas Jan 22 '13 at 03:25
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"touch /Eclipse.app" seems also to force reload, no need to copy dir. – Alexey Timanovsky Jan 23 '13 at 19:45
Confirmed. You either need to touch the app (as above) or duplicate the eclipse directory, delete the old one, and rename the new one. Anything to force the refresh of the plist cache. – Steve Swinsburg Feb 22 '13 at 05:53
Confirmed. You either need to touch the app (as above) or duplicate the eclipse directory, delete the old one, and rename the new one. Anything to force the refresh of the plist cache. – Steve Swinsburg Feb 22 '13 at 05:56
Just a note textwrangler finally came out with retina resolution! (yeah it was a few months ago but just found out myself) – ina May 13 '13 at 22:18
Use *lsregister*. See the "Thelle" post. This is guarantee to work. – mjlee Jun 30 '13 at 14:54

score 5 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 30 '13 at 16:28

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Force update the Info.plist in the Terminal by using the lsregister command:

/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Support/lsregister -v -f /Applications/eclipse/Eclipse.app

answered Apr 30 '13 at 16:28

Thelle

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score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Oct 23 '12 at 13:55

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There is an app called Retinizer which will convert Apps to Retina mode. Easier. Only really works for fonts though.

http://retinizer.mikelpr.com

answered Oct 23 '12 at 13:55

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does this alter other features of the app? – ina May 13 '13 at 22:18
Only the text. Images scale but won't look great as they aren't designed for the resolution. But at least makes the apps usable. – Simon O'Doherty May 14 '13 at 05:18

score -2 · Answer 4 · answered Oct 23 '12 at 05:57

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After updating High Resolution Capable to Yes in plist, make a copy of the app.

answered Oct 23 '12 at 05:57

ina

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For clarification: at the time, this was the answer. You could get retina resolution to show after copying the app after updating plist. Please don't downvote for the wrong reason. – ina Feb 26 '16 at 04:22

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