How to restore default perspective settings in Eclipse IDE

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I was playing around with perspectives  such as the Customizing perspective   I ve closed too many windows  and even menu is not visible now   and now would now like to restore the  Perspective back to its original state  How do I do this

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1  Go to  Window    2  Then click on  Open Perspective    3  Then click on  Other    4  Select  Java Default   and click  OK   Then again go to  Window  and click on  Reset Perspective

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1 - Go to window   2 - Go to Perspective and click   3 - Go to Reset Perspective  4 - Then you will find Eclipse all reset option

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If you still have the  open perspective  button in the top right  you can switch to a different perspective  go to Windows -  Preferences -  General -  Keys  and apply a key binding for  Reset Perspective   Then  switch back to the afflicted perspective and hit that key binding

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In case you are as talented as me and have made the Window menu invisible  there is no way back  as the Customize and Reset Perspective are no longer available  Having good other perspectives do not help  as you only can apparently edit the current perspective only  To get out without nuking all the workspace settings  the following may work    Open the file  WORKSPACE DIR  metadata  plugins org eclipse e4 workbench In this XML file  find the element that starts with  lt persistedState key  persp hiddenItems  for the perspective in question   This element has an attribute named value  which is a comma-separated list  You may look through the list and manually remove list items from this value which look like they need to be unhidden   There are likely multiple items  so a more practical solution is to delete the whole XML element    In my case  the offending element appeared close to the beginning of the file        lt children xsi type  advanced Perspective  xmi id       elementId  org eclipse cdt ui CPerspective  selectedElement       label  C C    iconURI  platform  plugin org eclipse cdt ui icons view16 c pers gif  gt     lt persistedState key  persp hiddenItems  value  persp hideToolbarSC org eclipse jdt ui actions OpenProjectWizard        gt    where some parts were replaced with dots  Obviously  you need to be careful editing machine-generated files  Somebody may be able to write a script   Now you can safely lock you out again

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Alt w-- or click on window tab -- ResetPerspective

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There is no keyboard shortcut for restoring the perspective directly AFAIK  To open the Window menu  where Reset Perspective resides   try Alt-W  If that does not work  I guess your Eclipse has hung for some reason  Another shortcut you might want to try is F10  should open the main menu

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The solution that worked for me  Delete this folder      workspace  metadata  plugins org eclipse e4 workbench

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Go Windows -  Perspective -  Reset Perspective  definetly this one help you

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One way is just to revert your settings  If you delete the Metadata folder in your workspace eclipse will revert to its factory state for all settings  both perspective and general    Source  http   infocenter arm com help index jsp topic  com arm doc faqs ka11640 html

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From the Window menu  Reset Perspective

[eclipse] How to restore default perspective settings in Eclipse IDE

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