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I'd like to remove the close buttons from tabs in Eclipse 3.6.1. The close button is unnecessary (middle-click closes tabs) and annoying (makes it easy to close tabs by accident). Also, space is reserved for each close button to appear when a mouse-over event occurs so it makes the tabs wider than necessary.

Is there some tweak/hack that can disable this feature?


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I filed a feature request to add an option to remove the close buttons from the tabs: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=362176

Please comment on that RFE. Thanks.

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Done. Thanks for that. –  Atorian Nov 3 '11 at 14:01
You are right, somehow I forgot. –  Atorian Feb 5 '12 at 13:45
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I don't think there's a setting for this in Eclipse but you could (if you wanted it bad enough :P) take the Eclipse source code, edit them out and compile your own version.

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Definitely not going to go the compile-myself route, no time for such extreme measures, however I am hoping someone knows some variable in one of the hundreds of config files of Eclipse that can be changed for the desired results. If not, then one day, when I am extremely bored I might embark on making a plugin that reaches in through the plugin API and re-configures the tabs (if that is doable at all). –  Atorian Nov 17 '10 at 20:46
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