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Intellij 14.1 Distraction free mode has a huge gap on the left side of the screen?

I'm really liking intellij's Distraction Free Mode. However when I try it on my machine, there is this big space on the left side of the screen. For some reason, even if I try to scroll to the left, the space is still there. It's like this huge margin on the left and it's eating a significant amount of space. How do I get rid of that? Here's a screen shot of what I have.

Sample image of intelliJ's DMS on my machine

If you look at this blog, the space on the left side of the screen is very little. I want it to look like that. How do I do that?

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Edit: Ok, somehow I discovered that if I hit ctrl + mouse scroll up, the big margin on the left sort of hides itself, but in the process, the text also becomes larger, which isn't really what I was looking for at the moment. The text is just too large by that point.

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Petra Avatar asked Oct 15 '15 14:10

Petra


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UPDATE: currently, aka 27 Dec 2015, there's an issue opened on their tracker regarding this feature/bug


The same blog you're indicating, states the following

In addition, the text is center-aligned!

This got me thinking, so I played a bit with the right margin features and, as you can see in the pictures below, the 2 seem related:

1. Right margin at 80 I have it at 120 and I can't recall the default value, but this looks like yours. Right margin at 80

2. Right margin at 160 Right margin at 160

In conclusion, the larger the number, the smaller the right margin, and in addition so to speak, the smaller the left margin.

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Morfic Avatar answered Oct 02 '22 13:10

Morfic