I'm facing the same issue with auto-completion menu in Eclipse, and in several other places. I was able to get around it by setting the tooltip background to a light color and foreground to black.
-- some dialogs in rhythmbox use tooltip's background color and are unreadable https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/535490 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to rhythmbox in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs