Eclipse tooltips

Eclipse on some versions of Centos and Fedora Linux has a very dark background making it impossible to read the text. I think is is some kind of misinterpretation of the settings in KDE and GTK. This can be fixed.

First go to the menu Window -> Preferences

In there locate Appearance near the top of the selection list.

Click once on the Enable theming (on some versions of Linux KDE/GTK graphical interfaces the tick would not be visible, but is clicked all right) - in fact you're switching the GTK Theming off at this point.

Click Apply or OK.

Next close Eclipse.

Now goto System Settings in the Centos/Fedora menu. In the System settings locate the Colour settings - in Centos, i.e. older KDE versions it is in Application appearance - Find the tab name Colours and in the list select the Tooltip background. Change the colour to a lighter if it is black/dark. Also take a look at the Tooltip text colour setting.

Save and exit.

Restart your Centos/Fedora - or log out an log in once again.

Start eclipse and check that the tool tip is readable.