Developer Toolbox: Fullscreen Eclipse
Tuesday 30 December 2008 - Filed under Code
I was looking at Eclipse today and realized I never use the toolbar. While you can hide it by right-clicking the toolbar and selecting “Hide Toolbar” it doesn’t stick. When you restart Eclipse – the toolbar is back.
Fullscreen Eclipse
I then went on a hunt to see if this was buried in the preferences somewhere and turned up nothing. Next stop – Google! That didn’t turn up anything either but I did run across and interesting plugin that at
least gives me similar functionality…
With this small plugin Eclipse and RCP Programs based on Eclipse can run in full screen mode, so that you can have more space to edit your programs.
So now I can open a file – hit CTRL+ALT+Z and get a nice maximized window – no toolbar, no statusbar.
2008-12-30 » Jim Priest
30 December 2008 @ 6:04 pm
Have you tried Ctrl+M or double clicking a tab for the file? It should do the same thing.
31 December 2008 @ 9:56 am
Dutch – Ctrl+M simply maximizes the current window – the toolbars, etc are still visible.
With the ‘fullscreen’ mode it’s one extra key – and everything goes away. Very handy.
31 December 2008 @ 10:10 am
How do you install this plugin. I tried adding it as an archive site but I get an error saying no repository found
31 December 2008 @ 10:36 am
It’s old school – unzip and copy the .jar file into the /plugins directory.
Note if you are running the final 7.0 version of MyEclipse this won’t work – they are working on a fix for manual installation that will be available in 7.1. For vanilla Eclipse installs however it should work fine. I think it does require 3.4.
20 February 2009 @ 3:55 pm
Hi, I’m on Eclipse 3.4 and manual installations doesn’t work :(
Is there any other way to make this plug-in work?
Thanks.
20 February 2009 @ 4:20 pm
What platform/OS are you using? What happens when you following my instructions regarding putting the .jar file in your plugins directory? I’m using 3.4 with no issues.
20 February 2009 @ 4:47 pm
I’m putting the .jar in Eclipse’s plugins directory, but nothing happens. I’m under x86 WinXP SP2. Note that all the other plugins that I have installed successfully I had to do so through online installers, because manual install didn’t work with any.
Thanks.
20 February 2009 @ 4:54 pm
Well I’m on XP too though running MyEclipse. I dumped the file here: C:\Program Files\MyEclipse 7.0 M2\eclipse\plugins\cn.pande.eclipsex.fullscreen_1.0.7.jar
Have you tried restarting Eclipse with the -clean switch? And what version of Java are you using?
24 February 2009 @ 12:32 pm
The “-clean” switch didn’t worked.
Java Version: 1.6.0_10rc from Sun Microsystems Inc.
24 February 2009 @ 12:37 pm
I’m using an older version of Java (1.5.x) so that may be an issue… You may want to contact the plugin author and see if he can provide some help?
4 March 2009 @ 9:40 am
The plugin worked fine under Zend Studio for Eclipse. Maybe it’s the Eclipse installation that is having issues with plugins (many of them had failed).
Thanks.