How to change tooltip's background color in Xfce?

Question

How do I change tooltip's background color on Ubuntu desktop "Xfce". I know how to change in Gnome but I can't find out how to do so in Xfce.

Tooltip's background color in Eclipse is black, and font's color is black too.

Answer 1

Take a look here: ubuntuforums.org - Tooltips/Info popup color scheme change for default 11.04 Xubuntu swap references to clearlooks with greybird. Good luck.

Excerpt from the thead:

So, to sum it all up, for happy yellow tooltips (In Xubuntu)

Open a terminal, type stuff in:

gksudo mousepad /usr/share/themes/Clearlooks/gtk-2.0/gtkrc

Paste the following at the end of the file:

style "clearlooks-tooltips" = "clearlooks-default"
{
        xthickness = 4
        ythickness = 4
        bg[NORMAL] = { 1.0,1.0,0.75 }
}

widget "gtk-tooltips" style "clearlooks-tooltips"

Switch to a different theme, than back again. Yellow tooltips. Yay!

The same thing will work for normal Ubuntu, just swap mousepad out for gedit in the terminal command.

Answer 2

I'm using Xubuntu 12.04 and had the same problem (mostly in Eclipse). Changing the theme was not an option, because I like Greybird. I found a solution at this blog.

To start you will need to edit these three files:

• /usr/share/themes/Greybird/gtk-3.0/settings.ini
• /usr/share/themes/Greybird/gtk-3.0/gtk.css
• /usr/share/themes/Greybird/gtk-2.0/gtkrc

You will need to look for the following entries and replace their values:

tooltip_bg_color
tooltip_fg_color

For my tastes, I’ve used #EAEAEA as the tooltip background color and #666666 for the tooltip foreground color (the font color). That’s it!

Answer 3

I have modified gtkrc in my radiance theme to correct the color issue on tooltips in Eclipse.

In order to modify in your system, run:

• To open with Terminal based text editor:

  sudo nano /usr/share/themes/Radiance/gtk-2.0/gtkrc
  

• To open with GUI based text editor (leafpad):

  gksudo leafpad /usr/share/themes/Radiance/gtk-2.0/gtkrc
  

NOTE: Make sure you back up the above file before you make changes.

You need to make the following two changes to correct the tooltip issue:

1. Replace the first line with

   gtk-color-scheme = "base_color:#ffffff\nfg_color:#4c4c4c\ntooltip_fg_color:#000000\nselected_bg_color:#f07746\nselected_fg_color:#000000\ntext_color:#3C3C3C\nbg_color:#f6f4f2\ntooltip_bg_color:#FFFFE1\nlink_color:#DD4814"
   

2. Search for

   bg[SELECTED]      = "#000000"
   

   and replace the line with

   bg[SELECTED]      = "#ffffff"
   

Save the changes and restart Eclipse after that to see the changes.

Answer 4

To do it manually:

• If you want to change the tooltip settings for all GTK2 apps, then edit ~/.gtkrc-2.0.
• Or, If you just want to change settings for Eclipse, then edit ~/gtkrc-eclipse and then start eclipse with GTK2_RC_FILES=~/gtkrc-eclipse eclipse):

Add the following to your gtkrc file.

style "gnome-color-chooser-tooltips"
{
  bg[NORMAL] = "#FFFFAF"
  fg[NORMAL] = "#000000"
}
widget "gtk-tooltip*" style "gnome-color-chooser-tooltips"

Alternatively, you can do this from a GUI:

• Install gnome-color-chooser .
• Go to Specific tab > Tooltips and check Foreground (black) and Background (yellow). Click apply.
• The settings are saved to ~/.gtkrc-2.0 and ~/.gtkrc-2.0-gnome-color-chooser.