Can I get rid of the status bar at the bottom of Eclipse?

Solution 1:

If you have a lower vertical resolution monitor, the Eclipse full-screen plugin may help you to maximize your work area.

It maximimizes Eclipse to the full screen, hiding the toolbar, the statusbar and (optionally) the menu bar as well (if you know Ctrl+3 in Eclipse 3.5 you would not need the menu bar any more :) ).

Solution 2:

I have used this one successfully with Eclipse Indigo and now Juno. It gets rid of the title bar at the top of the screen, but not the 'status bar' at the bottom.

Michaels Fullscreen Utility: http://michaelscharf.blogspot.ca/2009/06/every-pixel-counts-new-eclipse.html

Eclipse Update site: http://scharf.gr/eclipse/fullscreen/update/

In the Eclipse marketplace: http://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/fullscreen-mode

Source code: http://eclipse-helpers.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/eclipse-helpers/fullscreen-commands/trunk/