How to change highlight color of selection in search tab in Eclipse?

Question

In Eclipse 4.2 on Windows 7, in the search results tab, the selected search result has an unpleasant light color that makes it hard to read the text under it:

I have not been able to locate where this color is. Any ideas?

Answer 1

Try changing your Themes & Appearance settings.

Go to Windows > Preferences > General > Appearance

You will get options for Color themes, and label decorations.

you can download more themes from eclipse theme plugin

Its operating system's default selection color, you cannot change that thro' eclipse. Although if you select a light color theme, you will get black or dark color text and you will be able to see the text more clearly over this light blue background. or you can manually choose dark shades of colors for text.