How to change the highlight color in autocomplete box in Eclipse

Question

I can\'t find a way to change the color of the highlighted selection in the autocomplete box in Eclipse.

Answer 1

it must be a system setting, try the Ubuntu control center (system settings) / appearance / customize. Click all the tabs and see which color matches the color in eclipse.

Update: I just realized that in ubuntu 11.04 for some weird reason the possibility to customize the colors was removed, you need to change the config files

sudo vim /usr/share/themes/Ambiance/gtk-2.0/gtkrc 

in my version line 94 is

base[ACTIVE]      = shade (0.97, @bg_color)

which you need to change as you wish, e.g.:

base[ACTIVE]      = shade (0.50, @bg_color)

then you go to System settings / appearance, change the theme to something then change back to Ambience and voila, things are changed. I just can't imagine why there is no UI for changing this.

Update 2: this is slightly similar to what the other commenter suggested, just in a different file. I guess the difference is that will affect the system globally

UPDATE 2 :

in ubuntu 11.10 there is still no GUI to change the theme colors, but they also changed the file structure so exectute the following command (same as above)

sudo vim /usr/share/themes/Ambiance/gtk-2.0/gtkrc 

and search for this section that controls tooltip colors :

style "tooltips" {
    bg[NORMAL]        = @tooltip_bg_color
    fg[NORMAL]        = @tooltip_fg_color
}

and alter is as you wish e.g.:

    bg[NORMAL]        = "#000000"
    fg[NORMAL]        = "#FFFFFF"

UPDATE 3 :

In ubuntu 12.04 you need to do both changes described in update 1 and update 2