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Changes in window themes of something of the sort is causing the popup dialogs in Eclipse to have a very dark background. Then, since Eclipse uses hyperlinks in dialogs, I get blue on black, and it's basically unreadable. I tried changing themes in Ubuntu Tweak, but nothing seemed to affect the background color of that dialog. Can anyone help?

What I'm looking at: https://i.stack.imgur.com/319mj.jpg

dusktreader
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    See this answer: http://askubuntu.com/questions/70599/how-to-change-tooltip-background-color-in-unity

    It worked for me.

     – Rodrigo Oct 29 '12 at 14:33

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Eclipse can use GTK themes but it is an option, it's not obligatory. Go to Preferences, General->Appearence. Select "Classic" in Theme instead of GTK. Restart eclipse and you should be happy with the result.

Cheers :)

Max Kutsevol
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  • +1 Classic looks much better than the Gtk themes. It also fixes the problem that I can't read the heap status when "Default" is enabled. – Aaron Digulla Nov 21 '12 at 08:14
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I use Kubuntu 12.10.

I fix this problem with change color of tooltips background and change color of text tooltips.

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On ubuntu 12.10 (quantal) you can use the following two commands:

#foreground white => black
sudo sed -i s/tooltip_fg_color:#ffffff/tooltip_fg_color:#000000/g  /usr/share/themes/Ambiance/gtk-3.0/settings.ini /usr/share/themes/Ambiance/gtk-3.0/gtk.css /usr/share/themes/Ambiance/gtk-2.0/gtkrc
#background black => yellow
sudo sed -i s/tooltip_bg_color:#000000/tooltip_bg_color:#f5f5b5/g  /usr/share/themes/Ambiance/gtk-3.0/settings.ini /usr/share/themes/Ambiance/gtk-3.0/gtk.css /usr/share/themes/Ambiance/gtk-2.0/gtkrc

(Thanks to the other answers here that helped me to figure this out)

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