I changed the theme of my Eclipse and now when hovering a method/anything the background of the container is black, and nothing cant be read about the method.
Check this :
In Window > Preferences: General > Appearance > Colors and Fonts change the color Basic > Information background color.
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when using eclipse Dark Theme, some tab is very difficult to see its content as it show all white as below (the red highlighted), any method to prevent it?
These colors can be configured and are not the default colors of the dark theme. This misconfiguration could have been done manually or happened by installing or using a third-party plug-in.
You can see if it is a misconfiguration by switching to a new workspace without copying the settings.
In this case, go to Window > Preferences: General > Appearance > Colors and Fonts edit the color in View and Editor Folders or hit Restore Defaults.
go to Window > Preferences > Appearance
-there you can select dark background
-click on "Apply and Close"
now to get the tabs working go to Window > Preferences > Appearance > Colors and Fonts
edit the following and set to color black
-Active (no focus), selected part foreground
-Active selected part foreground
-Inactive, selective part foreground
-click on "Apply and Close"
I am using Pydev / Eclipse with dark theme.
how can I change the selection color? Here's an screenshot showing a part that is selected and is highlighted with a color that is too bright and makes the foreground not readable:
I followed settings of appearance color options in General > Editors > Text Editors as well as General > Editors > Text Editors > Annotations, but I couldn't find any option for changing that bright blueish color.
Here's an image showing my current setting (as you can see, the background selection color is set as a color that is totally different from this light blue color).
You have to restart your Eclipse first to see that 'selection background color' changed for python files.
The best answer to this is found here, Which inherits from General > Editors > Text Editors. There is also General > Editors > Text Editors > Annotations, which is where I found "Breakpoints (PyDev) which had the color I was finding offensive to my eyes.
Happy Hunting!
Short answer:
Preferences > PyDev > Editor.
In Eclipse 4.2 on Windows 7, in the search results tab, the selected search result has an unpleasant light color that makes it hard to read the text under it:
I have not been able to locate where this color is. Any ideas?
Try changing your Themes & Appearance settings.
Go to Windows > Preferences > General > Appearance
You will get options for Color themes, and label decorations.
you can download more themes from eclipse theme plugin
Its operating system's default selection color, you cannot change that thro' eclipse. Although if you select a light color theme, you will get black or dark color text and you will be able to see the text more clearly over this light blue background. or you can manually choose dark shades of colors for text.
I am trying to change the colour of the highlights of occurrences, as described here.
I can do this, and it works. However, when I restart LiClipse (on osx 10.9.3, liclipse v0.99), the previous colour is back.
I tried changing the permissions on /Applications/liclipse, but this did not help. -- what else could I do?
LiClipse manages the color scheme itself.
So, if you want you can use it to change the colors (preferences > appearance > color theme > edit theme > occurrenceIndication).
Now, if you want to manage those yourself after the initial LiClipse set, in preferences > appearance > color theme you can change 'reapply settings on restart' to 'dont reapply settings on restart.
Ubuntu 10.04.1 new theme has by default all windows background colors set to black.
I don't want to change that.
In Eclipse, the interface didn't change much due to 10.04.1 - except for one annoying thing:
when the mouse hovers over a keyword - a variable for instance - the type (...) of that keyword is displayed in a small pop-up window.
The problem since 10.04.1, is that the text is in black color while the background is also black.
Is there a way to change that background color in Eclipse?
Update Dec. 2018: as mentioned in howlger's answer, Eclipse Oxygen 4.7 (June 2017) does now include a way to configure the background color in popups:
See "Colors in interactive popups"
Interactive popups like JDT's Quick Outline don't use the platform's tooltip colors any more, since those were sometimes hard to read.
Old style:
New style:
Go to Window > Preferences: General > Appearance > Colors and Fonts
and change the Basic > Information background color.
In that same Colors and Fonts section, you will find:
Code assist
Basic > Content Assist background color -> change
Basic > Content Assist foreground color -> change
java doc
Java > Javadoc background ( overrides default: information background color) -> change
Original answer (2010-2012)
All the various popup background color are managed in Preferences > Java > Editor (like the one for the completion list popup in bug 133615).
Other background colors are in General > Appearance > Colors and Font (type background in the filter field).
But the type popup seems to stick to a system color, which is why you see a black background.
If this is truly the case, it is worth reporting as a bug.
The OP confirms it is not the case, actually:
It was in Preferences > C/C++ > Editor > Source hover background, and had to untick the "System default" (because the shown color was light-gray!)
On Ubuntu 12.04+, the post "How to change tooltip background color in Unity?" also mentions:
/usr/share/themes/Ambiance/gtk-2.0/gtkrc
The recent post (December 2012) "Eclipse Papercut #10 – Eclipse on Ubuntu: Fixing the black background color in hover" (from Lars Vogel) confirms:
The relevant properties are tooltip_fg_color and tooltip_bg_color.
Just search for these values, the position changes sometimes between releases, currently they are at the very top of the file.
The following setting uses more reasonable colors.
tooltip_fg_color:#000000
tooltip_bg_color:#f5f5c5
pointhi adds in the comments:
I also had to set the environment variable SWT_GTK3=0 before starting eclipse to get it working.
If you use KDE (Kubuntu) you can fix that by changing the Tooltip Background color in KDE System Settings -> Application Appearance -> Colors -> Colors, and change the Tooltip Background.
I've adopted a slightly different solution;
First create a new script, eclipse.sh, that starts eclipse, mine look like this:
#!/bin/bash
GTK2_RC_FILES=/usr/share/eclipse/gtkrc-2.0-eclipse /usr/share/eclipse/eclipse
Then create the gtkrc file (/usr/share/eclipse/gtkrc-2.0-eclipse), mine look like this (it have some other changes as well to make better use of the screen):
style "my-tooltips"
{
bg[NORMAL] = "#FFFFAF"
fg[NORMAL] = "#000000"
}
widget "gtk-tooltip*" style "my-tooltips"
style "gtkcompact"
{
font_name="Ubuntu Light 11"
GtkButton::default_border={0,0,0,0}
GtkButton::default_outside_border={0,0,0,0}
GtkButtonBox::child_min_width=0
GtkButtonBox::child_min_heigth=0
GtkButtonBox::child_internal_pad_x=4
GtkButtonBox::child_internal_pad_y=4
GtkMenu::vertical-padding=1
GtkMenuBar::internal_padding=0
GtkMenuItem::horizontal_padding=4
GtkToolbar::internal-padding=1
GtkToolbar::space-size=1
GtkOptionMenu::indicator_size=0
GtkOptionMenu::indicator_spacing=0
GtkPaned::handle_size=4
GtkRange::trough_border=0
GtkRange::stepper_spacing=0
GtkScale::value_spacing=0
GtkScrolledWindow::scrollbar_spacing=0
GtkExpander::expander_size=10
GtkExpander::expander_spacing=0
GtkTreeView::vertical-separator=0
GtkTreeView::horizontal-separator=0
GtkTreeView::expander-size=10
GtkTreeView::fixed-height-mode=TRUE
GtkWidget::focus_padding=0
GtkTreeView::vertical-separator = 0
}
class "GtkWidget" style "gtkcompact"
style "gtkcompactextra"
{
xthickness=0
ythickness=0
}
class "GtkButton" style "gtkcompactextra"
class "GtkToolbar" style "gtkcompactextra"
class "GtkPaned" style "gtkcompactextra"
class "GtkNotebook" style "gtkcompact"
window -> preferences -> general -> Appearance -> Color&Fonts -> Java (necessary language, example java) -> Javadoc text color (or Javadoc background)
Since Eclipse Oxygen (4.7) this color can be configured in Window > Preferences: General > Appearance > Colors and Fonts by changing the Basic > Information background color.