Eclipse Mars route over black methods after update

Question

I upgraded to Eclipse Mars. Now, if I visit the methods, I have black text on a black background. Before the update, the moon I had a yellow background, black text. How can I configure this method for methods? I'm on Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS.

Answer 1

The best workaround I have is the following:

export SWT_GTK3=0 

before starting the eclipse. (You can also do: SWT_GTK3=0 ./eclipse )

Alternatively, you can also:

 ./eclipse --launcher.GTK_version 2 

I found that all GTK3 modes are barely usable and messy.

The dark (emo) mode still works somewhat, because somewhere there are some hard-coded colors (ohh). I wish they had a better check. It is simply unsuitable. And I want the GNOME people to stop breaking their stuff all the time. I hate everything that they have done the last few years ... they are completely developing their interface for a different audience than the developers.

When testing different themes / engines, always restart eclipse completely (without using the "reboot" menu) to make sure you select new environment variables, etc.

You can set this default value by adding export SWT_GTK3=0 to your $HOME/.profile , which will usually be read when you log in (i.e. this will only work if you log out and log back in into the system).

Answer 2

I had a similar problem. so I decided to install eclipse mars using the oomph installer . Guess what!! finally i have my eclipse without any GTK 3 problems.

Give it a try, much more than what oomph offers.

I am using a Fedora 22 Workstation with GNOME