How to unlock toolbars in Eclipse 4.2 (Juno)

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I migrated from Eclipse Indigo (3.7) to Juno (4.2). In Juno all toolbars seem to be permanently locked. Is there a way to unlock them so they could be moved or rearranged?

As it turned out the ability to move toolbars (or any trim elements for that matter) is broken in Eclipse Juno. Here's a direct link to the **[Bug #340695](https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=340695)** for everyone who's interested in tracking this issue. — curd0, Jul 16 '12 at 16:14
use the windows7 theme. the other themes cause some actual performance issues. toolbar keeps re-rendering too — Nicholas DiPiazza, Dec 22 '12 at 21:13

score 39 · Answer 1 · edited Nov 10 '15 at 13:52

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Try Windows- Preferences - Appearance

See the print:

Then type Theme in the Search box (or go General->Appeearance->Theme) and choose Window 7. restart and you'll be able to move the icons/groups in the toolbar (but not get rid of any)

After you're done you'll be asked to restart/ I went to Classsic theme and THEN restarted.

Hope it helps

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answered Oct 25 '12 at 18:08

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Theme dropdown is empty in my installation of Eclipse (Android Developer Tools based on Eclipse 4.2.1). – Dmitriy Rybakov Jun 04 '13 at 15:26
This was the fix for Kepler on Windows 8. – wbdarby Oct 29 '13 at 02:05
This was also the fix for Kepler on Windows 7. – splungebob Mar 20 '14 at 19:38
That's great, in linux, you can change to theme "Classic" – Eric Apr 22 '14 at 14:06
This was also the fix for Luna on Windows 8.1 64 bit – tomgeraghty3 Oct 31 '14 at 22:27
Also works on Luna Service Release 1 (4.4.1), Win 8.1 x64. Many thanks! – Ciri Feb 04 '15 at 09:25
Works for Spring Source Toolkit as well on Win 10 Preview. Thanks, that was super distracting having huge empty spaces on the toolbar. – Jberg Feb 22 '15 at 00:35

score 37 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 25 '12 at 13:53

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I posted this earlier as a comment to my question, but was suggested that it should be an answer, so here we go:

It has been officially confirmed that the ability to move toolbars (or any trim elements for that matter) is broken in Eclipse Juno. Here's the link to the Bug #340695 for everyone who's interested in tracking this issue. The fix is expected in the Milestone release 4.2.2.

answered Sep 25 '12 at 13:53

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You would have thoughts things like this are pretty difficult to get wrong in 2012. – kizzx2 Oct 13 '12 at 15:46
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So much for using the latest eclipse! #facepalm – Niks Apr 17 '13 at 04:33

score 7 · Answer 3 · answered Nov 20 '12 at 22:50

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Changing the theme to Windows 7 work fine for me.

answered Nov 20 '12 at 22:50

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score 6 · Answer 4 · answered Jul 03 '12 at 13:24

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I don't think that this is possible today.

answered Jul 03 '12 at 13:24

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score 4 · Answer 5 · answered Jul 19 '12 at 21:31

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Partial workaround: http://blog.redfin.com/devblog/2012/07/hide_eclipse_juno_toolbar.html

Use Help > Welcome, then Window / Show Toolbar. At that point you should be able to move your minimized window toolbar(s) around (what was "fast view" before).

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score 2 · Answer 6 · answered Jan 14 '13 at 14:13

Good grief. I tried changing to the Windows 7 Classic theme because I was unable to move my toolbar buttons. Worse even, when the debug perspective opened automatically upon hitting the first breakpoint, the Java perspective button remained pressed, but pressing it again changed back to the Java perspective. Now, with Windows 7 Classic, the editor tabs look like in Indigo (whose look&feel personally I liked much better), but now the menu bar is gone and all perspective chooser buttons are gone too. The menu hotkeys (such as "Alt-W p" to get to Window-Preferences) don't seem to work. If I don't want to re-install I would probably now have to fiddle with some config files to find the Theme setting. Well, thank you...

score 1 · Answer 7 · answered Nov 12 '13 at 15:03

For Eclipse Kepler, I have reported the bug again (the fix to the previously listed bug doesn't appear to have made a difference), and listed a workaround.

Changing the CSS for the org.eclipse.platform plugin to use ../images/ instead of ./ in all of the image URLs should cause it to start working.

score 0 · Answer 8 · answered Aug 27 '13 at 19:38

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Obviously this is still broken in v4.3/Kepler. Thanks to the above appends I found a way to fix this (using theme Windows Classic).

Thanks folks! M.

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