How to fix black tooltips in Eclipse(ADT)?

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I am having a weird problem with Eclipse documentation tooltips. When I startup Eclipse the tooltip works as expected: But after I press the down button the tooltip turns black: and stays like that for the rest of the session. I am using Eclipse Galileo and Ubuntu 11.04 with the classic desktop. EDIT: I am only experiencing this problem in PHP Development Tools. The tooltips work in Java and Python projects. 11.04 eclipse shareimprove this question edited May 24 '11 at 21:30 asked May 24 '11 at 21:12 Smotko 684616

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The answer from Arkaduysz's works if you correct the second line. the gksu would try to change root's settings I think.: Install: sudo apt-get install gnome-color-chooser run it: gnome-color-chooser Go to "Specific" tab, check and setup background/foreground colors in tooltip box. Apply & Close. To fix the color issue in the eclipse package explorer (white font on light grey back), choose "global" tab, and check standard > inputfield > selected and set it to black.