I'm usually working with IntelliJ IDEA on MacOS in fullscreen mode. When I try to access something in the toolbar, I often overshoot the target a little, and the main menu bar opens instead, hiding the toolbar. So I have to move the mouse a little lower, wait and move carefully into the toolbar again. This is quite annoying. Are there any tips to avoid this? Is it possible to move the toolbar, say, to the bottom of the screen?
It doesn't seem to be possible at the moment, but there are 2 open requests you can vote for:
IDEA-119950 A setting in the settings area to stop 'show on hover' menu in fullscreen
IDEA-117034 Fullscreen menu bar is too eager to show
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I am new to running IntelliJ on a Mac. On Windows, it's possible to "minimize" the Maven "toolbar" to the right edge of the screen:
On my Mac, minimizing this makes the bar disappear. Why is that? How can I change this?
Probably you've toggled tool windows view (this could be done by hitting Alt twice, or by clicking most-left bottom icon):
If you click this button, tool window bars and buttons are shown. At the same time the button, appearance toggles to show hide tool window bars. If you click the button again, the tool window bars and buttons are hidden again.
More info in Working with Tool Windows
The main toolbar has icons for "new file", "open file", a textbox for the current working directory and a couple of icons for browsing around. The bar stretches horizontally across the entire workspace but the icons only occupy around 40% of this. Even with icons set to "small" in Preferences, I am still losing around three lines of code on my MBP 13" screen.
Given the low value provided by the toolbar, the screen realestate tradeoff is extremely poor. Can we turn it off?
Note: This toolbar is not the same as the editor toolbar, which has icons for things like breakpoints and "step into".
There is a crappy workaround where you detach the toolbar, drag the main window to the left, drag the toolbar to the right (so that it is 99% off screen) and then drag the main window back. This way the toolbar doesn't snap back into the workspace.
Sadly you still see a few pixels of the toolbar.
I wonder if there is a way to disable the following:
I have two project windows opened on the screen next to each other and when I position the cursor on the active project window and scroll with the trackpad, I see the other project's content window scrolling too! I need only one to scroll at a time. Is there a way around this annoying feature?
I feel like I have read every link on Google pertaining to this question, but none that I have read have helped.
All I want to do is view my Storyboard layout on the left monitor, and on my right monitor, in a new window, have the Assistant Editor open to "Preview" for my Storyboard so that I can preview the different devices sizes (clicking different storyboard views on the left screen should update the assistant editor preview on the right). This seems so simple, but has not proved to be.
Please tell me this is possible.
EDIT: This guy seems to have it working but following the steps didn't work for me.
It's possible.. and it's awesome:
I do have this working after following the instructions linked in the OP. I think the author left out that you need to click on the view controller that you're editing in BOTH instances of the story board window to see the changes update. Then as you're editing on your main window the changes will update to the open storyboard and thus the preview will update as well. I was able to test this and achieved a somewhat desired result.
In case the link goes dead here are the instructions lined out
Here’s how you can set this up…
In the Project Navigator pane, single-click a storyboard/XIB file to open it in the main Xcode window.
Now double-click that same file to open it in a new window.
Move the new window to another monitor and maximize it
(So now you have the story board on 2 windows)
Click on the new window to make sure it has input focus, then type Option+Command+Enter to open an assistant editor in that window.
In the assistant editor’s jump bar click on ‘Automatic‘ to open the drop-down menu (see the screenshot below if you don’t know what this means).
Click on the ‘Preview‘ menu item to open the preview editor.
Click and hold next to the assistant editor’s jump bar, then drag up or left (depending on which editor layout you prefer; vertical or horizontal), to maximize the preview’s screen real estate.
Lastly... the part the author left out is that you need to select the view controller you want to edit in BOTH story board windows and then just drag the preview window to cover more of the screen.
It's not pretty but it's effective.
Edit: wording and grammar :)
This is not currently possible (Xcode 6.3.1 at the time of writing). The best you can do is open your storyboard in one window, open it again in a new window, open the preview, and slide the assistant editor as far left as possible. The preview won't take up the entire window, but it'll be pretty close.
I'm making an app that covers the screen, so I have a window covering the screen completely, with its level higher than the main menu.
So I draw over the main menu, but I want the main menu to be accessible, still.
How would I do so?
IMHO it is probably best (and also MAS acceptable) to force your app to run in full-screen mode. That way the menubar will still display if the user hovers in its area but you get the benefit of using the entire screen.