How do I change the background color of the column with the expanders in Eclipse?

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Published on 2010-03-25T14:17:43Z Indexed on 2010/03/25 16:53 UTC
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Recently after scorching my retinas from the garish white background in Eclipse, I found some of the excellent posts about how to change the colors so it uses sane (i.e. dark background) colors in the editor. However, one problem present in all solutions is that background of the column with the expanders for code folding is always white. Is there a way to change the background of that column? Here's a screenshot of the problem:

Apparently the Eclipse editor is brought to you by The White Stripes

I'm not the only person that has this problem, as shown in the screenshots for the following questions:

I know that the problem is not language specific as it happens in Java, Python, HTML, and everything else. Any hints on where in the pages of preferences this setting is?

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