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 dialogues when their activation key is let go.
Normally
the dialogue 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. See also Virtual Machine
Memory.
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 behaviour.