How does one stop Intellij from putting annoying rectangles or boxes around text in the editor?
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I've searched online and in settings but can't seem to find an answer. I'm working from an M1 Mac, community edition Intellij Idea. How do I get rid of the annoying rectangles surrounding the text as they appear below?
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Check your color scheme for the effects enabled, switch back to the default scheme to revert these changes.
Hi Serge,
Thank you. Effects comprised the problem, indeed. The only trouble is that there seems to be a large volume of those options in Color Scheme. Is there any way to change them all in one fell swoop, or is it going to require manual selection for each one?
Regards,
Jamie
It depends on the scheme you are using and if it inherits from the defaults.
Hi Serge,
Thank you for your response. I'm using the One Dark theme/scheme. It looks like I will need to manually uncheck each one.
Regards,
Jamie
You can also try to find the scheme XML file under the Configuration directory: https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/directories-used-by-the-ide-to-store-settings-caches-plugins-and-logs.html#config-directory, colors subdirectory and edit it manually to remove all the effects when the IDE is not running.