Good diff tools under Ubuntu GNOME

Meld is an actively-developed, open-source GUI-based diff utility targeted at developers. It is free It runs on Linux GNU License 40+ posts tagged as meld on Stack Overflow. Actively developed through February 2013 (the time of this posting) Allows two and three way comparison between files and folders Supports Subversion, Git, and Mercurial

Eclipse, change popup text background color when hovering the mouse on a keyword

Update Dec. 2018: as mentioned in howlger’s answer, Eclipse Oxygen 4.7 (June 2017) does now include a way to configure the background color in popups: See “Colors in interactive popups“ Interactive popups like JDT’s Quick Outline don’t use the platform’s tooltip colors any more, since those were sometimes hard to read. Old style: New style: … Read more