How to enable "Use Single Tool Window Bar" in PyCharm 2026.1?
DataGrip has "Use Single Tool Window Bar" option, which places a control with tool window buttons in the middle of the tool bar at the top. How to enable this option in PyCharm? Using latest versions (2026.1) of both on macOS 26.4.1. Also, even in DataGrip, I have to use search tool and search for ‘action’ to enable / disable this option. Why it is not in the Settings?
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The "Use Single Tool Window Bar" feature was implemented only in DataGrip and is currently not available in other IDEs.
Feel free to watch/vote for the related issue here: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IJPL-59925/Use-Single-Tool-Window-Bar-unsupported-in-other-IDEs-except-DataGrip
See https://intellij-support.jetbrains.com/hc/en-us/articles/207241135-How-to-follow-YouTrack-issues-and-receive-notifications if you are not familiar with our issue tracker.
Thanks!
I actually suspected this would be the case, despite that Gemini in Google Search tried to convince me otherwise, and proposed multiple plausible scenarios how to do it. But none worked. :)
I voted for the issue following your link, but as it is about 3 years old already, and has just 11 votes, I would not hold my breath that it will ever be implemented.
It's just my DataGrip trial is coming to an end, and I'm thinking whether to subscribe to it, or subscribe to e.g. PyCharm Pro, which is the same price, but apparently includes the functionality of both DataGrip and WebStorm. But there are always subtle nuances like the one I asked about which need to be considered.
We have this issue open to collect votes and see if there’s enough interest. As far as I know, we currently have no plans to implement this feature in other IDEs, but we may reconsider it in the future.
One concern with other IDEs is that users usually need to use additional tool windows for writing code, and a single tool window bar is often not enough to accommodate all of them.
For DataGrip, typically 3–4 tool window buttons are enough.
Should you have any other questions, please don't hesitate to ask.