Hide Eclipse Menu Bar (auto-hide)

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AVP06 picture AVP06 · Dec 5, 2011 · Viewed 8.9k times · Source

I'm trying to hide Eclipse menu bar to save some screen real estate. I found I can do this using perspectives but that would permanently take out the menu from that perspective. The behavior that I want to get is something along of auto-hide, so that the menu remains hidden until I hit ALT+F for example or any other ALT key combo.

Is there's a setting or a plugin that can do this?

Thanks!

Answer

user2901535 picture user2901535 · Jul 24, 2014

This is just a work around. Create two perspectives.

First one named - With Menu.

Second one named - Without Menu.

In the "Without Menu" perspective remove all menu items and Save.

To create the effect of hiding and showing, switch between perspectives by using

Ctrl+F8.

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