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JustDanyul
JustDanyul

Reputation: 14054

Background color of eclipse error popups

When you hover over a error in the source editor from within Eclipse, it will show a little overlay suggesting how to fix it. This is terribly useful for importing classes, and I use it for this quite a lot. However, on Linux the colour scheme is horrendous, its thin blue writing on a dark grey background, and its borderline impossible to read.

How can I fix this from within eclipse? All "solutions" I seen so far to this problem, involves modifying your gtk theme. Which is a bit ridiculous (why would I break everything else to fix one faulty program).

Upvotes: 2

Views: 510

Answers (2)

JustDanyul
JustDanyul

Reputation: 14054

I've finally found a solution to this, and I reckon I will post it here in-case other people might find it useful.

I created a custom gtkrc file, containing the following

style "eclipse-tooltips"
{
    xthickness  = 8
    ythickness  = 4

    bg[NORMAL]    = {0.8, 0.8, 0.8}
    fg[NORMAL]    = {0.0, 0.0, 0.0}
    bg[SELECTED]  = {0.8, 0.8, 0.8}
}
widget "gtk-tooltip*"       style "eclipse-tooltips"

and then started eclipse using

GTK2_RC_FILES=/path/to/custom/gtkrc eclipse

Upvotes: 1

Tom
Tom

Reputation: 16208

First suggestions - Use Ctrl-Shift-O to insert the correct imports. Then later, set On Save Actions to automatically insert the correct imports. Then as you write new code, it Ctrl-S, which will also automatically compile the code again and show you any compile issues! Very helpful.

Second - Use an Eclipse theme!

Upvotes: 1

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