Status bar

By using a status bar, you can monitor the current IDE state and run environment maintenance tasks.

Status Bar icons

Icon	Description
	Click to toggle showing or hiding tool window bars. Also double press and hold `Alt` to show hidden tool window bars. Refer to the procedure description.
	This section of the Status bar shows a description of a command, currently selected from the main menu, context menu, or a toolbar.
	Click this icon to invoke the Background Tasks manager. Visibility of this icon in the Status bar depends on a launched background task.
	Numbers that are divided by a colon denote the current caret position in the editor(line and column). If you selected a part of a code in the editor, DataGrip shows you a number of characters and line breaks in the selected section.
	This Lock icon indicates the read-only or writable attribute of the current file in the editor. To toggle the file attribute, click the Lock icon or use the File \| Make File Writable/Read-only command from the main menu.
	View and change line endings of the current file in the editor.
	View and change encoding of the current file in the editor.
	Code style for indents. You can set a character that you want to use for indents: a tab or a space. Also, you can set a number of these characters in the indent. Click the icon and select Configure Indents for <dialect_name>.
	Shows the current VCS branch. If you click the icon, you can select a VCS branch and work with it.
	Hovering your mouse pointer over the icon shows the current code inspection profile at the tooltip. Clicking the Hector icon results in showing a dialog with the following functions: Highlighting level. Use the slider to change the highlighting level for the current file , or configure the inspection profile. Depending on the highlighting level selected by the slider, Hector keeps an eye on the code (Inspection level), turns half face (Syntax), or averts his face from the code (None). Power Save Mode. Select this checkbox to minimize power consumption of your computer by eliminating the background operations. To indicate that the mode is on, Hector fades . When Power Save Mode is on, DataGrip reduces its functionality to the one of a text editor, by not executing highly-consuming background activities that drain laptop battery. These activities include error highlighting and on-the-fly inspections, automatic code completion. You can also toggle Power Save Mode through the File \| Power Save Mode command from the main menu.
	Indicates that there are unattended notifications. Click this icon to see the notification descriptions in the Event Log tool window. Alternatively, when the icon is empty, there are no new notifications.
	This blinking icon indicates that internal IDE errors have occurred. Click to view the error descriptions and submit reports.

Last modified: 16 July 2020