How to change line space in Project window?

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Is it possible to change line space for Project window only in Intellij IDEA? I've seen "Overrride default fonts" in Settings which is "not recommended". Is there a recommended way to do that? Thanks.

There was not recommended settings only for specific fonts. What do you mean under 'line space' ? — Igor Konoplyanko, Jul 23 '13 at 10:36
Project view is a tree with nodes, font line spacing doesn't control the gaps between the nodes. — CrazyCoder, Jul 23 '13 at 12:14
@CrazyCoder, is that possible to reduce the space between nodes somehow? — Eugene, Jul 24 '13 at 09:02
No, it's not possible. Why do you need it? I don't recall anyone ever requested it. — CrazyCoder, Jul 24 '13 at 11:32
@CrazeCoder, Just to save some space, to see more so to say :) — Eugene, Jul 24 '13 at 14:15
Submit a request: http://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issues/IDEA . — CrazyCoder, Jul 24 '13 at 23:50
I need this too!! Having no line spacing for the editor is silly, especially when you can change the font size — yazz.com, Apr 26 '15 at 07:47

score 30 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 24 '20 at 08:06

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Found solution in IDEA ticket (thanks for support help!):

Enable "Internal Mode"
Open "Find Action" (Ctrl-Shift-A), find "LaF Defaults" and press Enter
Find "Tree.rowHeight" property and change it

Value 20 is perfect for me

answered Feb 24 '20 at 08:06

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Thanks so much! I was suffering several weeks! – Stepan Romankov Feb 24 '20 at 10:45
You're the boss – gsouf May 02 '20 at 11:35
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Just to be clear... 0 is auto... is the same that 20 – Yuri Morales Dec 10 '20 at 16:05
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Макс Ветер answer is only for Paid feature for the theme, this way works great, thank you – Ke Vin Jun 24 '21 at 04:40
It works, however the value is not persisted and gets back to 28 in my case when the IDE is restarted. – cvigo Jul 05 '21 at 07:14
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ugh, this trick no longer works for me in 2021.3 – Kevin Bond Dec 03 '21 at 20:27
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This still works. You just need to go Settings > Appearance > Change font size (e.g: 13) > then apply. Change it back (e.g: 12) after you see the change in your project tree rowHeight. – superern Jul 27 '22 at 00:42
Is this scriptable? I have a plugin that undoes this on every version update, and I'm keeping the plugin. Don't know about IJ scripting. Would want to change the font size to something else and back again, too, as mentioned ☝️ so that the change takes effect. – WillHaslett Dec 05 '22 at 19:38

score 27 · Answer 2 · edited Feb 13 '20 at 11:47

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I solved this by using Material Theme. Settings -> Appearance & Behavior -> Material Theme -> Project View -> Custom Sidebar Height.

edited Feb 13 '20 at 11:47

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answered Dec 01 '18 at 19:48

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It does reduce the spaces between nodes in the Project View. – Duke Jan 21 '19 at 18:46
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This menu item seems to be (re)moved in some later version. I can't find it on 19.3.3. Do you happen to know where it has been moved? – Michiel Haisma Jan 31 '20 at 09:15
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@MichieI Haisma, still see it in the Project view, as of 2020/07/31. Maybe it was added back? – Michael Goldshteyn Jul 31 '20 at 13:53
Just perfect. Typing 10/12/14 also works in 2020.3 version. default min is 18. – Doogle Jan 30 '21 at 07:43
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Updated: The Material Theme is a paid subscription (1.5€/month) theme now. The Answer from @shooma works perfect! – Fabian Marz Apr 13 '21 at 09:15

score 14 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 23 '13 at 11:20

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I think it's possible only for editor. You can change it using this settings panel: enter image description here

answered Jul 23 '13 at 11:20

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That 'Line Spacing' only increase it in code editor. Do you know how to achieve the same in project file list tab? – mc.dev Dec 16 '19 at 22:48
@mc.dev 15-yr user of Jetbrains ide's here saying : pretty sure there's no built-in way to do that. there's an answer below that changes plugin them that might do it. – WestCoastProjects Jan 25 '23 at 22:06
Btw now there are plenty of UI plugins, so maybe there is something out there – Igor Konoplyanko Jan 26 '23 at 09:01

score 2 · Answer 4 · answered Feb 08 '21 at 02:34

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version: IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition 2020.3.2

File-> Settings-> Editor-> Font-> Line spacing

answered Feb 08 '21 at 02:34

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score 1 · Answer 5 · answered Oct 19 '21 at 11:37

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You can create a Plugin Theme, and set Tree.rowHeight and List.rowHeight to X.

Juste wrote a tutorial about it: https://medium.com/@let92/set-line-height-in-project-view-of-jetbrains-ide-36c07de3254

answered Oct 19 '21 at 11:37

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score 0 · Answer 6 · answered Jul 27 '22 at 00:52

LaF Default solution of @shooma is still working.

Here are the steps: First Three steps is still the same as @shooma's solution but need further steps to apply your changes.

Enable "Internal Mode"
Open "Find Action" (Ctrl-Shift-A), find "LaF Defaults" and press Enter
Find "Tree.rowHeight" property and change it

Here are the next new steps

Go to Settings > Appearance
Change Font Size to anything (e.g: 13)
Apply ( you should be able to see the difference, you can try rowHeight 40 to see big difference )
-optional- Change it back to your Font Size (you may not need this step if you are satisfied with your current font size)

How to change line space in Project window?

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