How to hide toolbar in Eclipse 4.2?

Question

The toolbar is of no use for me, it occupies space, I use shortcuts to achieve all functions the toolbar provide. In Eclipse 3.7 we can right click the toolbar and hit "hide toolbar", but how to do that in Eclipse 4?

score 15 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 13 '12 at 03:18

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Menu was gone but the command seems to be available still now.
Preferences > General > Keys
Type "toggle t" in filter text, then "Toggle Toolbar Visibility" will appear. It seems to work when some key is assigned.

answered Jul 13 '12 at 03:18

atlanto

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Awesome, actually i type "toggle toolbar" in quick access box and press enter, the toolbar disappear, including the quick access box--just what i need. Thank you. – Mike Jul 13 '12 at 03:37

score 12 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 30 '12 at 15:18

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> Window > Hide Toolbar

(I'm running 4.2.1.)

answered Oct 30 '12 at 15:18

Luke Usherwood

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That removes the entire toolbar. He needs to remove specific unusable items from toolbar. – Sankalp Nov 29 '15 at 09:21
I'm pretty sure this is what he wanted :-) – Luke Usherwood Sep 12 '16 at 10:51
For recent versions it is `> Window > Appearance > Hide Toolbar` – ks1322 Dec 30 '22 at 17:38

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 06 '18 at 19:31

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In 4.7.2 you can use the menu items: Window -> Appearance -> Hide Toolbar & Window -> Appearance -> Show Toolbar to toggle toolbar visibility.

answered Mar 06 '18 at 19:31

Stefano Mozart

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score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Aug 18 '20 at 10:26

In 4.9.0 you can open Window > Perspective > Customize Perspective via the top menu. Here you can either hide a complete tool bar group and even show/hide single icons. Me, I reduced it to show only one single line of symbols, so that I have more space for the editors below.

The Customize Perspective function has been introduced long time ago in Eclipse, so I guess it is available for your version.

score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Sep 13 '12 at 18:14

You can do it programatically like this:

@Override
public void postWindowOpen() {
    hideCoolbar();
    super.postWindowOpen();
}

private void hideCoolbar() {
    try {
        IHandlerService service = (IHandlerService) PlatformUI
                .getWorkbench().getActiveWorkbenchWindow()
                .getService(IHandlerService.class);
        if (service != null)
            service.executeCommand("org.eclipse.ui.ToggleCoolbarAction",
                    null);
    } catch (Exception e) {
        //handle error
    }
}

score -1 · Answer 6 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:53

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Not sure if this will work, but why dont you take a look at this.

Hide Coolbar/Toolbar items/Preference pages in Eclipse RCP application (Eclipse e4)

edited May 23 '17 at 11:53

Community

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answered Jul 12 '12 at 15:42

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score -1 · Answer 7 · edited Mar 16 '18 at 16:03

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WorkbenchWindow w = (WorkbenchWindow)HandlerUtil
     .getActiveSite(event)
     .getWorkbenchWindow();
w.setPerspectiveBarVisible(false);

edited Mar 16 '18 at 16:03

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answered Mar 16 '18 at 12:59

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