How can I disable the "dimming" of the code completion popup in IntelliJ?

Question

The code completion popup which comes up automatically in IntelliJ IDEA looks like this:

As you can see, It's dimmed, or "faded" and hard to read. (Screenshot is fine, but the real one is hard to read.)

After I click on it, it looks like this:

As you can see it's no longer dimmed or faded, but I always have to click on it to un-dim it.

How can I make it always fully visible and not dimmed ?

Answer 1

One way to make the autocomplete popup fully visible is to select Settings/Editor/General/Code Completion/Insert selected variant by typing dot, space, etc.

This is however not just an appearance setting, so it also changes the way autocomplete behaves, which may or may not be good depending on your preference.

I am not aware of any option which would purely disable the dimming. You could try posting a feature request for that on https://youtrack.jetbrains.com.