Can you change IntelliJ colors on per project basis?

Question

I often have 2-4 projects open at the same time in IntelliJ IDEA 15. It quickly becomes confusing switching between them, especially when classes are similarly named. Is there a

Answer 1

Another possible solution might be to create different scopes for your projects and apply custom colors. Note: I see this more as a workaround because (IMHO) scopes should be mainly used 'in-project'. The downside with this solution is that you have also to handle the build-in scopes like Test.

Answer 2

The accepted solution is correct but remember that if you have more than one project (with PHPStorm version) open while setting the background image both will get it even if you check "this project only". My solution has been to close one project apply the background to the other, close everything and then open the first project.

Answer 3

You may want to set a different background picture for each project to distinguish them from each other. This could also be a single solid color picture for example. Enter Cmd+Shift+A and search for the Set Background Image action (Ctrl+Shift+A on Windows).

Answer 4

My solution is based on the above - where I created a 1px x 1px coloured png and used it as the background image at.. Preferences > Appearance & Behaviour > Appearance and there's a button 'Background image' .. But .. I found that resizing my project window caused a huge lag in refreshing it to the new size. .. So .. I tried with a 200px x 200px image and resizing now works as normal. Make sure you also tick the 'This project only' option.

Answer 5

You cannot set colors on project level.

See IntelliJ Manual:

The settings that pertain to a project, are marked with the icon current_project_icon in the Settings dialog.

Color setting does not show this icon (and text "For current project") next to the title.