I'm using manjaro since a wil, and everything is well else intellij.
the size and ratio of tool bar and side bars is unacceptable.
I tried to resize tool bar but the resize button in (window -> active tool window) is disabled, and I tried to find anything could helps in settings but nothing relatd to ui is working (for example background opacity).
as shown in the picture I couldn't work clean with the code.
If you would like to have more space for code, you can try one of the following:
Change the IDE view mode via View > Appearance to the one that fits your purpose the best.
In usual mode hide all the side windows with Hide tool windows (Ctrl+Shift+F12).
Show / Hide any components via View > Appearance, that is, check/uncheck toolbar, Navigation bar, etc.
Decrease IDE font size (Settings | Appearance & Behavior | Appearance, Use custom font) and/or Editor font size (Settings | Editor | Font).
If none of the suggested options works for you, please file a new issue in our tracker and describe what exactly goes wrong in your case if you follow this or that suggestion. Thank you!
i am using android studio/intellij idea
my idea starts showing me a balloon with a preview of a method
and it disturbs me when i need the top bar like finding text
(it appears when i scroll far from that part of code).
i tried to search the web and to play with the settings
but i did not find any solution for it how do i fix it?
Disable Settings (Preferences on macOS) | Editor | General | Appearance | Show code lens on scrollbar hover.
Related documentation section.
I know that I can change the color of just about all texts in IntelliJ IDEA by navigating to
Settings -> Editor -> Color Scheme
and then finding the item that I want to change the color of.
I have not, however, been able to find the proper name or category for the controls that would change the color of the filenames listed in the Version Control window.
I have clicked through most every option available there and although I know I missing something super simple, I have been unsuccessful.
Here is a picture to show exactly what I'm talking about.
Settings | Version Control | File Status Colors
Today I added Material Theme plugin to WebStorm and I believe this is the reason behind changelist not appearing on the sidebar.
To be precise, this is what happens in IntelliJ when I make change to a specific line of code and click on the yellow bar that appeared after I removed the semicolon:
The change I made can also be seen under VCS -> Local History -> Show History menu option, which shows the diff between the previous and current version of that file.
However, performing the same action in WebStorm doesn't show the changelist/diff on the sidebar:
which means that the only way I can see it is by going to VCS -> Local History -> Show History which is very tedious:
I found being able to quickly revert/lookup the changes on the fly by clicking on that coloured bar really handy, could someone tell me if there is a setting in the IDE that enables that? I looked up and down but couldn't find anything relevant, perhaps I wasn't looking for the right keyword.
Thanks in advance.
Change markers are there for me when using Material UI plugin. Do you have Highlight modified lines in gutter enabled in Settings | Editor | General?
As the title, I want to change color of active tab to make it to be more different from other. I went through https://devnet.jetbrains.com/thread/274446 but it's not enough!
Is there any way to do that?
I just found out in intellij, it's "file scope" that controls a file's background in project pane as well as in the tabs. Here is the steps to add/modify current scope/tab background.
The default Darcula theme sets the "Tests" scope to this dark green color which is very close to the tab control background. I always lost track of which tab is activated when it's one of the test files. Hope this helps.
The Active IntelliJ Tab Highlighter plugin provides a simple way of solving this problem.
Go to File -> Settings.
In Plugins type "Active IntelliJ Tab Highlighter into the search box.
Click on the "Search in repositories" link.
Select the Active IntelliJ Tab Highlighter and click on the green Install button.
Close the window and restart IntelliJ
The active tab should now be highlighted in purple. If required, a different color can be chosen via File -> Settings -> Tools -> Active Tab Highlighter Plugin -> Background (clicking on it brings up a color picker). I personally went with a less garish dark gray color (AAADAA).
An alternative way, Setting > File colors:
check Enable File Colors, Use in Editor Tab
uncheck Use in Project View
add new scope with your color (ex: Project Files with orange color)
For IntelliJ IDEA 2021.3.2 (Community Edition)
You can change it in settings:
Settings | Editor | Color Scheme | General | Editor | Tabs | Selected Tab
There you can change Background and customize the view in other ways.
Although the question is quite old, when I googled the problem, this link was in the first three results, so I'll add my 5 cents as well.
Even though I could not find the way to brighten the color of an active tab alone, I was able to solve the problem by changing the color for a given scope altogether. In my case, it was the Tests scope, set to the default green, where the active tab was barely distinguishable from inactive ones, so I went to Settings > Appearance & Behavior > File Colors (exact location may depend on your Idea's version), selected the Tests scope and selected Custom color; the exact RGB value that worked for me was 1A7250. As a side-effect, the test directory's background color in the Project view also changed, which may or may not be a bad thing.
Regards, hope this helps.
I was losing the track of active tab using the darcula theme, in a test directory with a newly created file and staged with git. I ended up changing the File status color.
You will have to make a copy of your theme first: