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How can I hide the status bar in Eclipse? I mean the one at the bottom, where also the "Progress" status is shown. It is very distracting because it is doing something all the time.

I took a look at this question, but the answer given there and on Superuser does not show how to hide it. I also did not find anything in the preferences. I am using Eclipse 3.7.2.

How can I hide the status bar, or at least, get rid of the "Progress" bar at the bottom?

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With CSS in Eclipse Juno there are endless possibilities to style Eclipse the way you like: edit the eclipse/plugins/org.eclipse.platform_4.2.2.v201302041200/css/e4_default_mac.css (adapt it to your Eclipse version and operating system).

There, add the following lines:

#org-eclipse-ui-trim-status,
#org-eclipse-ui-trim-vertical1,
#org-eclipse-ui-trim-vertical2 {
   visibility: hidden;
}

Now, not only the status bar but also the bars on the left and right are hidden. Before doing that, you might open the views you like to have and bring them to your preferred positions and assign a shortcut to them so that they will pop up whenever (and only when) you need them. Of course, you can undo that change any time.

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    Is it also possible before Juno? My version is 3.7.2. – Uooo Jun 11 '13 at 04:16
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    Great!! you are the Awesome Dude.. it works like charm on my MAC Book!! Thank you a lot for sharing this. :) – swiftBoy Oct 24 '13 at 07:18
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    +1000, got some screen real estate back from Eclipse. Of course, now the scrollbars stick out like a sore thumb, which is apparently an SWT limitation based on a couple hours of scouring the net for a solution... – virtualeyes Jan 01 '14 at 09:35
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    in eclipse luna, its now org.eclipse.ui.themes_1.0.1.v20140819-1717 – chrismarx Nov 25 '14 at 15:30
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    also, how does one go about finding out the element ids for parts of the ui to develop additional css styles? – chrismarx Nov 25 '14 at 15:32
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    @chrismarx now in org.eclipse.ui.themes_1.0.1.v20141126-1957 as of 4.4.2 M20150204-1700 – virtualeyes Mar 19 '15 at 07:00
  • In eclipse mars the CSS is in "plugins/org.eclipse.ui.themes_1.1.0.v20150511-0913/css" – reallynice Feb 18 '16 at 08:46
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Eclipse Oxygen (4.7)

Approach 1

  1. Go to Quick Access (or press Ctrl + 3)

    Quick Access

  2. Type "status bar"

  3. Choose Toggle Statusbar - Toggle the visibility of the bottom status bar

Approach 2

  1. Window > Appearance > Hide Status Bar

    Hide Status Bar

    This feature is described here.

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With the new release of Eclipse, you can use the menu to hide the status bar.

see: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=501811

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