A potentially very stupid question, but I'm lost.
How do I change the font size of the menu bars (i.e. the labels "File", "Edit", "Selection", "View", ...) including the sidebar explorers, extension menus etc. (i.e. every text that is not the main coding window)?
I tried searching the user settings for "font" but I did not see any option specific for the menu font size.
I was also not able to find it via Googling.
The version of VSCode I currently have is 1.63.2
I am sure I missed something and apologies in advance for this simple-minded question.
Press Ctrl+Shift+P to bring up the command palette and run the View: Zoom In or View: Zoom Out command. The default keybindings for these commands are Ctrl++ and Ctrl+-.
There is also an extension called Zoom Bar which adds the overall zoom level to the status bar.
This will zoom your main coding windows as well, but you can work against that by adjusting your editor font size in your JSON settings:
"editor.fontSize": 14
Increase or decrease this depending on your zoom level.
When having multiple editor groups, they take the same space in VSCode. For example, if I have 2 vertical groups, each one takes 50% of my screen. Now, if I double click on a file name in the group e.g. 2, this group takes about 70% of my screen and becomes bigger, so I can see the code better. If I double click again, both groups will be 50-50 again.
What is this feature called? What's the shortcut key for it?
This feature is called Toggle Editor Group Sizes And there is no shortcut by default, but You can set it as you like. I set my own shortcut (Ctrl+Shift+Alt+9) and tested it successfully.
Tested with Ubuntu 20.04 and Visual Studio Code 1.64.0
Warning: as explained by Aymen Kharroubi in issue 154068 "View: toggle editor group sizes doesn't work in a complex window layout"
Example:
start in evenly distributed window layout (like in the image above), then run command "View: toggle editor group sizes", this works.
Now run command "View: toggle editor group sizes", this doesn't work.
Weirdly, if you move to some other window, some work, some don't
This has been fixed with VSCode 1.70 (July 2022, PR 154467) and is available today in Visual Studio Code Insiders.
In VS Code When I have a vertical editor split with 2 panels I would like to be able to change the right panel's width to a predefined total window width % using a shortcut.
Say I would like to have one shortcut to show the right panel at 50% of the overall VSC width. Then the second shortcut is 30%, the third is 80% and the 4th is 0%.
At the same time I would not like to have any files from the right editor panel joined or closed when I change the panel's width.
Is it posssible with the built-in commands of extensions?
I discovered the VS Code behavior that partially resembles the feature I described above.
To see this we have to split the editor in 2 panels (View->Editor Layout->Two Columns), open some file in the right hand one, manually move its border to the farthest right. Then as we switch between the panels with Ctrl-1 and Ctrl-2 (Windows) the respective active panel will restore its maximum width and the other will get the minimum width.
This does not fully solve my problem but at least alleviates the pain.
I have a dual screen setup and would like to have a fixed number of editor windows with a fixed size open to avoid that an editor window bridges between two screens. VS code adapts editor windows automatically as they open and close.
I found a hint to .tab.sizing-fixed but I cannot find it in the settings (in 1.32). The "workbench.editor.tabSizing": "shrink" seems to handle only the sizing of the tabs, not the editor window.
centered layout auto resize off, if that would work
It is relatively straightforward to change font sizes in Eclipse through preferences (and answered several times in this forum).
However I'd like to change font size quickly (e.g., with Ctrl++ and Ctrl+- like in Linux terminal or Ctrl+mouse wheel in MS Office apps). Is there a way to do this in Eclipse?
Eclipse Neon (4.6)
Zoom In
Ctrl++
or
Ctrl+=
Zoom Out
Ctrl+-
This feature is described here:
In text editors, you can now use Zoom In (Ctrl++ or Ctrl+=) and Zoom Out (Ctrl+-) commands to increase and decrease the font size.
Like a change in the General > Appearance > Colors and Fonts preference page, the commands persistently change the font size in all editors of the same type. If the editor type's font is configured to use a default font, then that default font will be zoomed.
So, the font size change is not limited to the current file and the new value of the font size is available here Window > Preferences > General > Appearance > Colors and Fonts.
I know it has been long since the original question was posted, but for future reference:
check this project, https://github.com/gkorland/Eclipse-Fonts
I have used it, and it's very simple and efficient.
Take a look at this project: http://code.google.com/p/tarlog-plugins/downloads/detail?name=tarlog.eclipse.plugins_1.4.2.jar&can=2&q=
It has some other features, but most importantly, it has Ctrl++ and Ctrl+- to change the font size, it's awesome.
The Eclipse-Fonts extension will add toolbar buttons and keyboard shortcuts for changing font size. You can then use AutoHotkey to make Ctrl+Mousewheel zoom.
Under Help | Install New Software... in the menu, paste the update URL (http://eclipse-fonts.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/FontsUpdate/) into the Works with: text box and press Enter. Expand the tree and select FontsFeature as in the following image:
Complete the installation and restart Eclipse, then you should see the A toolbar buttons (circled in red in the following image) and be able to use the keyboard shortcuts Ctrl+- and Ctrl+= to zoom (although you may have to unbind those keys from Eclipse first).
To get Ctrl+MouseWheel zooming, you can use AutoHotkey with the following script:
; Ctrl+MouseWheel zooming in Eclipse.
; Requires Eclipse-Fonts (https://code.google.com/p/eclipse-fonts/).
; Thank you for the unique window class, SWT/Eclipse.
#IfWinActive ahk_class SWT_Window0
^WheelUp:: Send ^{=}
^WheelDown:: Send ^-
#IfWinActive
Windows > Preferences > General > Appearance > Colors and Fonts
Then, to change Java editor font: Java > Java Editor Text Font > EDIT
There it is.
Oddly, working on a .js file and Ctrl, Shift, += works to zoom in (and Ctrl - works to zoom out but you have to select 1 or 2 after Ctrl -). This only works when I'm in the js file but the zoom applies to all my open tabs. Using Eclipse Juno on Ubuntu.
In Eclipse Neon.3, as well as in the new Eclipse Photon (4.8.0), I can resize the font easily with Ctrl + Shift + + and -, without any plugin or special key binding.
At least in Editor Windows (this does not work in other Views like Console, Project Explorer etc).
Found a great plugin that works in Juno and Kepler. It puts shortcuts on the quick access bar for increasing or decreasing text size.
Install New Software -> http://eclipse-fonts.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/FontsUpdate/
I use an Eclipse plugin (in Eclipse Marketplace)
https://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/fontsize
Here's a quicker way than multi-layer menus without resorting to plug-ins:
Use the Quick Access tool at the upper left corner.
Type in "font", then, from the list that drops down, click on the link for "Preferences->Colors and Fonts->General->Appearance".
One click replaces the 4 needed to get there through menus. I do it so often, my Quick Access tool pulls it up as a previous choice right at the top of the list so I can just type "font" with a tap on the enter key and Boom!, I'm there.
If you want a keyboard shortcut, Ctrl+3 sets the focus to the Quick Access tool. Better yet, this even automatically brings up a list with your previous choices. The last one you chose will be on top, in which case a simple Ctrl+3 followed by enter would bring you straight there! I use this all the time to make it bigger during long typing or reading sessions to ease eye strain, or to make it smaller if I need more text on the screen at one time to make it easier to find something.
It's not quite as nice as zooming with the scroll wheel or with a simple Ctrl+ or Ctrl-, but it's a lot better than navigating through the menus every time!