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Harald
Harald

Reputation: 5143

Eclipse content assist flyout shows unreadable dark on black despite using a light theme

Starting to use Eclipse 2018-12, the code preview flyout from content-assist has an unreadable foreground/background combination as in the following screen shot:

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I found the Appearance->Color and Fonts->Content Assist preference, but this only takes care of the right part shown above with the white backgrond. (Similarly, if I hover over an element in the editor, the tooltip is also some unreadable dark color on black background.)

This is on Ubuntu. In my active theme I find

@define-color theme_tooltip_bg_color #fbeaa0;

which is clearly not black. The hint about tooltip comes from some of the ultra-old answers like https://superuser.com/a/198589/345087, https://stackoverflow.com/a/38135826/2954288, https://stackoverflow.com/a/3572010/2954288, https://askubuntu.com/a/101913/367444, but these don't seem to apply anymore.

Does anyone know how to fix this with the most recent Eclipse release?

EDIT: I should add that the black window is shown only for Template Proposals Java/Java Type/Java Non Type Proposals are all good.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1193

Answers (2)

Stephen L.
Stephen L.

Reputation: 64

Window > Preferences: General > Appearance > Colors and Fonts

Set the javadoc background to white - // discovered on photon through experimentation

Upvotes: 1

howlger
howlger

Reputation: 34295

In Window > Preferences: General > Appearance > Colors and Fonts you have to change the color Basic > Information background color, not the Basic > Content Assist background color for that.

Only in Java templates, this preference is not used probably due to a bug in Eclipse 2018-12. Please report it to Eclipse JDT. Thanks for reporting it to Eclipse (as Eclipse bug 543110).

Upvotes: 2

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