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I've been trying to change the background color for the 'quick-fixes' pop-up (the pop up that lists ways to fix an error) in eclipse juno. Currently the color is black and the text is blue which makes it very hard to read.

I cant find the correct way to change the color. Please help. Its really annoying to squint and have to read blue text on a black background.

Vizzle
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This was driving me nuts as well, here is the fix.

  • Go to preferences.

  • Search for "Annotations"

    for each Annotation Type:

   if "Text as" == "Highlighted" and Color == black:

       Set the color to light or uncheck "Text As"

In this screen shot, I am fixing Occurrences.

The problem I show to the left is the "Matching Tags" annotation which had the same problem.

Screen Shot showing Preference Repair

t1m0
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You can change the color of the text in the pop-up.

In windows you can go Control Panel, search for colors and metrics and then select Change window colors and metrics. In the item menu select Hyperlinks and change the Color.

EDIT: This fix is valid for Windows 7. Windows 10 does not have the option to change Hyperlinks color.

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Right Click anywhere in the Editor Window, and at the bottom of the context menu select Preferences. This will bring you into Java -> Editor. At the bottom ofthat window select the element colors you wish to change, in your case Parameter hints background and Parameter hints background or Completion overview background and Completion overview foreground, depending on which one it is you are having a problem with.

Matt Clark
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    nope that doesnt work. The box background itself is a different color (black). Changing the parameters doesn't do anything. I'll try to upload an image. – Vizzle Jan 23 '13 at 06:59
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From what I found, I do not think you can change the color. I am not willing to go to Eclipse source code and find it but here's what fixed it for me. Not perfectly but to a level I can use the quick fix. In my case, the background and foreground was same. (Luna, Dark Theme, Using Solarized Editor Theme).

  • Go into the Preferences (Window -> Preferences)
  • Choose General -> Appearance from the left menu
  • Uncheck the checkbox Use mixed fonts and colours for labels

The detail is in this post. How to change the highlight color in autocomplete box in Eclipse

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