how to hide the status bar in eclipse

Question

Is there a way to hide the quite large status bar cluttering the bottom of the eclipse window ? (where the heap status, line and column count and further non-essential info is shown).

I am forced to work on a tiny screen here so I already have the fullscreen plugin installed and hide the regular toolbar per default, but a few more pixels would definitely help ease the pain of a 4:3 19".

Answer 1

I found another solution in my research of using the eclipse dark color theme: http://i.stack.imgur.com/3heiL.png

Solution requires to edit css of eclipse. Source: https://stackoverflow.com/a/17027501/2790481

• If you've installed eclipse-color-theme plugin, you can just copy paste to Eclipse IDE -> Window -> Preferences -> Appearances -> Chrome Theme -> CSS:

  #org-eclipse-ui-trim-status, #org-eclipse-ui-trim-vertical1, #org-eclipse-ui-trim-vertical2 { visibility: hidden; }

• If you use a custom theme then you'll have to edit that plugin's CSS. Eg I had to edit this file eclipse\\plugins\\com.github.eclipseuitheme.themes.moonrise-ui_0.8.6.jar\\themes\\css\\moonrise-ui-standalone.css and add the above CSS code at the end of moonrise-ui-standalone.css.

Answer 2

You can do this by using quick access. type 'toggle visibility' should find the command that will hide the status bar at the bottom of the window.

Answer 3

With the coming release of Eclipse, you'll be able to hide the status bar via menu.

see: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=501811