Nicolas Richeton

This is a tip for all Eclipse users on Linux :

When using content assist (Ctrl-Space), you sometime have to get your hands on the mouse to use the scrollbars in order to read the full package name of a class or to scroll the content of the javadoc to the interesting part.

On both Windows or OSX, you can simply resize the content assist window and the new size will then be used the everytime you trigger content proposal.

But on Linux, you cannot resize this window. This is caused by bug 23980. While this bug is hard to solve, there is a simple workaround for this specific issue.

Edit
${workspace_location}/.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.jdt.ui/dialog_settings.xml

…and change content assist size in the completion_proposal_size section


<section name="completion_proposal_size">
<item value="800" key="size.x"/>
<item value="300" key="size.y"/>
</section>


Restart Eclipse and enjoy content assist at full size.

(I helped Philippe to find the right file. He published a french version on this tip and I took care of the international one. )