title: Gigantic Tabs in Eclipse on Ubuntu
body: <p>EDIT: For anyone coming to this question through searching, you can install a Gnome Theme called <a href="http://martin.ankerl.com/2007/11/04/clearlooks-compact-gnome-theme/" rel="noreferrer">Clearlooks Compact</a> to shorten your tabs in Eclipse. This will free up a <strong>lot</strong> of screen space. You can also check out the answer below to learn how to make the tabs more horizontally compact.</p>
  
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  <p>Short version: How do I make a short version of Eclipse's tabs &amp; toolbars in Ubuntu?</p>
  
  <p>I've been looking around for a fix to this on Google, but to no avail. With any GTK theme, I still have this same issue and it's very, very annoying--to the point where I've stopped using Eclipse in favor of gEdit. However, after running pylint from a terminal too. many. times. I've decided I need to find a solution to this issues with Eclipse so I can have PyDev back. Here's what the tabs look like:</p>
  
  <p><a href="http://c0496682.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/big-tabs.png" rel="noreferrer" title="I&#39;m sorry, you seem to have misplaced your elephant in my tabs.">alt text http://c0496682.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/big-tabs.png</a></p>
  
  <p>As you can see, not only are the tabs exaggerated, but the toolbar is, too: so is the toolbar on the bottom; so are the tabs in the bottom pane. Overall, it's eating up a lot of screen space, which is a hard item to come by on a 17" screen. Any suggestions/fixes?</p>