CODEWITHSUNDEEP
eclipse
BlackEye
BlackEye

Reputation: 777

Eclipse editor border hover - Doesn't show problem descriptions directly on hover

This is what the eclipse editor border hover is supposed to look like:

Eclipse oob

But someone messed around with our company eclipse preferences (and left the company). With our current settings the hover looks like this:

enter image description here

So you need to hover over the problem icon and then over again over the icon in the popup. That feels unwieldy.

Couldn't find something in the eclipse settings nor on google. Any idea how to change this setting back to the default behaviour?

Eclipse version: 2020-06 (4.16) (this problem occured in any version from Neon on where the colleague created the preferences with)

Upvotes: 0

Views: 308

Answers (1)

howlger
howlger

Reputation: 34137

In Window > Preferences: Java > Editor > Hovers uncheck the checkbox Expand vertical ruler icons upon hovering (does not effect open editors) and close and reopen all open Java editor for that.

Upvotes: 1

Related Questions