General Preferences

General

The General page displays setting for the workbench (see Figure 1). Each workbench window contains one or more perspectives. Perspectives contain views and control what appears in certain menus and tool bars. More than one workbench window can exist on the desktop at any given time.

Figure 1. General preferences page

Select Always run in background check box to perform long running operations in the background without blocking you from doing other work.
Select Keep next/previous editor, view and perspectives dialog open check box to remain open view cycle dialogs when their activation key is let go. Normally the dialog closes as soon as the key combination is release.
Select Show heap status check box to display an indicator showing information about current Java heap usage.
You can select one of the following methods for opening resources in the Open mode layout:

Double click - Single clicking on a resource will select it and double clicking on it will open it in an editor.
Single click (Select on hover) - Hovering the mouse cursor over the resource will select it and clicking on it once will open it in an editor.
Single click (Open when using arrow keys) - Selecting a resource with the arrow keys will open it in an editor.

Note: Depending on which view has focus, selecting and opening a resource may have different behavior.

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