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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
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<head>
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"Copyright (c) IBM Corporation and others 2000, 2011. This page is made available under license. For full details see the LEGAL in the documentation book that contains this page.">
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<title>General</title>
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<h1 class="Head">General</h1>
<div class="Intro">
General settings for the Workbench. The term <i>Workbench</i> refers to the desktop development environment.
</div>
<p>Each Workbench window contains one or more perspectives. Perspectives contain views and editors and control what
appears in certain menus and tool bars. More than one Workbench window can exist on the desktop at any given
time.</p>
<p class="Para">The following preferences can be changed on the <a class="command-link" href=
'javascript:executeCommand("org.eclipse.ui.window.preferences(preferencePageId=org.eclipse.ui.preferencePages.Workbench)")'>
<img src="PLUGINS_ROOT/org.eclipse.help/command_link.svg" alt="command link"> <strong>General</strong></a> preference
page.</p>
<table width="75%" border="1">
<tr>
<td><strong>Option</strong></td>
<td><strong>Description</strong></td>
<td><strong>Default</strong></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Always run in background</td>
<td>Turn this option on to perform long running operations in the background without blocking you from doing
other work.<br></td>
<td>Off<br></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Keep next/previous part dialog open</td>
<td>If this option is turned on then the editor and view cycle dialogs will remain open when their activation key
is let go. Normally the dialog closes as soon as the key combination is release.</td>
<td>Off</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Show Heap Status</td>
<td>Turn this option on to display an indicator showing information about current Java heap usage.<br></td>
<td>Off<br></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Workbench save interval</td>
<td>The field indicates how often the state of the workbench like perspective layouts and open editors is
automatically saved to disk. Set to 0 to disable.<br></td>
<td>5<br></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Open mode...</td>
<td>
<div class="Para">
You can select one of the following methods for opening resources:
</div>
<div class="Para"></div>
<ul>
<li class="Item">Double click - Single clicking on a resource will select it and double clicking on it will
open it in an editor.</li>
<li class="Item">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.</li>
<li class="Item">Single click (Open when using arrow keys) - Selecting a resource with the arrow keys will
open it in an editor.
<p class="Para"><strong>Note:</strong> Depending on which view has focus, selecting and opening a resource
may have different behavior.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</td>
<td>Double click</td>
</tr>
</table>
<h3 class="related">Related reference</h3><a href="ref-23.htm">Workbench Window Layout</a>
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