Changing the background color of an intellij pane

Question

I\'ve changed the color scheme in intellij so that the background of the Java editor pane is dark and the text is light. I\'m not sure if this is directly related, however, in

Answer 1

Here's the latest 2016 that worked for me. I had changed the white background for editors but all the panes were still black. Selecting Quick Switch Scheme -> Look and feel -> default option - solved it for me, i.e. white panes.

https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/2016.1/switching-between-schemes.html