c++ - Eclipse CDT: How can I change background color of tooltip in editor? - Stack Overflow

c++ - Eclipse CDT: How can I change background color of tooltip in editor? - Stack Overflow

Switching to a clean workspace might help but I found the curprit if you want to manually edit it. Look in:

[my workspace]/org.eclipse.core.runtime/.settings/org.eclipse.cdt.ui.prefs

for

sourceHoverBackgroundColor.SystemDefault=false

and make it "true". Restart Eclipse. Of course this assumes that your system default background colour is not black.

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