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I am having a weird problem with Eclipse documentation tooltips. When I startup Eclipse the tooltip works as expected:
But after I press the down button the tooltip turns black:
and stays like that for the rest of the session.
I am using Eclipse Galileo and Ubuntu 11.04 with the classic desktop.
EDIT: I am only experiencing this problem in PHP Development Tools. The tooltips work in Java and Python projects.
The answer from Arkaduysz's works if you correct the second line. the gksu would try to change root's settings I think.:
Install:
sudo apt-get install gnome-color-chooser
run it:
gnome-color-chooser
Go to "Specific" tab, check and setup background/foreground colors in tooltip box. Apply & Close.
To fix the color issue in the eclipse package explorer (white font on light grey back), choose "global" tab, and check standard > inputfield > selected and set it to black.
Colors menu wasn't having any effect for me.
To fix this annoying behaviour in KDE, the fix is similar:
System SettingsApplication Appearance in Common Appearance and BehaviourColours icon and then on Colours tabTooltip Background and choose a bright color, for instance pale yellow or whiteTooltip Text below and choose a darker color, like blue or blackApplyThe fix will be available immediately, no need to restart Eclipse.
Note: On Eclipse mars the change was not immediate. I had to restart eclipse.
Install:
sudo apt-get install gnome-color-chooser
run it:
gnome-color-chooser
Go to "Specific" tab, check and setup background/foreground colors in tooltip box. Apply & Close.
I managed to solve this problem by switching to the Radiance theme and then setting the tool-tip color in Appearance/Customize.../Colors:
When I tried the same thing with the Ambiance theme I started getting weird color errors all over my desktop.
gnome-color-chooser. However, the Adwaita theme works out of the box, without using gnome-color-chooser at all.
The answer listed here finally worked for me after trying several other solutions, none of which worked (Eclipse Mars 4.5.2, Ubuntu 14.04.3). I did have to edit one additional file though (gtk-main.css).
If you run the "Ambiance" theme (default theme, dark), open these files and change all "bg" tooltip colors to #ffffff (white) and all "fg" tooltip colors to #000000 (black):
/usr/share/themes/Ambiance/gtk-3.0/settings.ini
/usr/share/themes/Ambiance/gtk-3.0/gtk.css
/usr/share/themes/Ambiance/gtk-3.0/gtk-main.css
/usr/share/themes/Ambiance/gtk-2.0/gtkrc
So e.g. run:
sudo gedit /usr/share/themes/Ambiance/gtk-3.0/settings.ini /usr/share/themes/Ambiance/gtk-3.0/gtk.css /usr/share/themes/Ambiance/gtk-3.0/gtk-main.css /usr/share/themes/Ambiance/gtk-2.0/gtkrc
If you run the "Radiance" theme (the light theme), you need to edit these files:
/usr/share/themes/Radiance/gtk-3.0/settings.ini
/usr/share/themes/Radiance/gtk-3.0/gtk.css
/usr/share/themes/Radiance/gtk-3.0/gtk-main.css
/usr/share/themes/Radiance/gtk-2.0/gtkrc
So e.g. run:
sudo gedit /usr/share/themes/Radiance/gtk-3.0/settings.ini /usr/share/themes/Radiance/gtk-3.0/gtk.css /usr/share/themes/Radiance/gtk-3.0/gtk-main.css /usr/share/themes/Radiance/gtk-2.0/gtkrc
I found a way to fix Eclipse tooltip color without falling back to GTK2 and without affecting any other application.
The fix is captured in a script and it can be accessed here.
https://github.com/KiranMohan/eclipse-gtk3-ubuntu
The script makes a copy of the Ambiance theme, modifies the tooltip color and then writes a launcher for eclipse with this new Theme.
I managed to solve this in Oxygen by going to windows->preferences->general->appearance->Colors and Fonts then in the window provided find Javadoc background (overrides default) - changing the color to anything that is not black.
