Eclipse - black background in javadoc popup

Question

I am using Elementary OS, based on Ubuntu 12.04 and Eclipse Luna. The background color of javadoc popups is black and font color is dark grey, so it is unreadable. I tried to c

Answer 1

As a KDE user, you have to change the tooltip background color with System Settings. Navigate to

Application Apperearence -> Colors (Left side menu) -> Colors (Colors tab on right side)

and adjust the Tooltip Background and Tooltip Text colors. In your case, adjusting the tooltip background should be enough.

The setting is under GNOME UBUNTU in Settings.

Answer 2

I had the same problem with Ubuntu 16.04 and Eclipse Mars. I solved the problem by adding the following lines in eclipse.ini :

--launcher.GTK_version
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