In unbuntu system, we often encounter that the tooltip background is black in color. In eclipse,
we see that all the documentation appear in black background which is unpleasant for eye.
Through googling I find that there are many ways to tackle this problem. But for our convenience, someone has made a shell script which automatically fix this problem.
You just have to run this script and you are done.
Just copy and paste this script in a file with extension .sh and run it…
#/bin/sh # Tooltip fix # A script to fix themes files in Ubuntu 11.10 # to have readable tooltips in applications such # as eclipse. # The script edits the gtk.css, settings.ini and gtkrc files # Author: Victor Pillac # http://victorpillac.wordpress.com if [[ $EUID -ne 0 ]]; then echo "This script must be run as root" 1>&2 exit 1 fi path=/usr/share/themes theme=Ambiance if [ $# = 1 ]; then theme=$1 fi echo "Fixing tooltips for theme $theme" echo " (you can select a different theme by passing its name as argument)" sed -i 's/tooltip_bg_color #000000/tooltip_bg_color #f5f5b5/g' $path/$theme/gtk-3.0/gtk.css sed -i 's/tooltip_fg_color #ffffff/tooltip_fg_color #000000/g' $path/$theme/gtk-3.0/gtk.css sed -i 's/tooltip_bg_color:#000000/tooltip_bg_color:#f5f5b5/g' $path/$theme/gtk-3.0/settings.ini sed -i 's/tooltip_fg_color:#ffffff/tooltip_fg_color:#000000/g' $path/$theme/gtk-3.0/settings.ini sed -i 's/tooltip_bg_color:#000000/tooltip_bg_color:#f5f5b5/g' $path/$theme/gtk-2.0/gtkrc sed -i 's/tooltip_fg_color:#ffffff/tooltip_fg_color:#000000/g' $path/$theme/gtk-2.0/gtkrc echo "Done"