Erich Styger

Erich is Professor at Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts and Distinguished Member of Technical Staff at Freescale Semiconductor. Erich has a MsCS degree and 18+ years of experience in the embedded software and tools world. He created many embedded cross C/C++ compilers and debuggers. Additionally he is researching in the domain of programming languages, real time and mechatronic systems. Erich is a DZone MVB and is not an employee of DZone and has posted 47 posts at DZone. You can read more from them at their website. View Full User Profile

Hide and Show Eclipse Toolbar

07.19.2012

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Screen real estate is important to me. Especially working on a small notebook screen I want to get the most out of it. And I know: all the cool (and fancy) UI items in Eclipse have a price.

So how to get more space for important things like my source files? Eclipse has feature to hide the toolbar completely. For this I simply use the context menu and select ‘Hide Toolbar’:

Hide Toolbar

While this is great, there is one little problem: how to get it back? Obviously there is no toolbar any more where I could use a context menu like ‘Show Toolbar’ .

The solution: there is a menu item for this under Window > Show Toolbar:

Show Toolbar Menu

Happy Toolbaring

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Gilberto Olimpio replied on Mon, 2012/07/23 - 3:22am

It you need extra screen real estate, the full screen plugin for Eclipse is still working (it's not being updated for a while). It allows you to hide the menu bar as well.

Update site:

http://www.scharf.gr/eclipse/fullscreen/update/