Center align code to reduce Distraction In Idea, Goland, Pycharm

Change to center alignment code editor for Intelliji IDEs

04 June 2020

In this article, I’ll show you how to use distraction free mode by changing the code alignment in IntelliJ IDEA, GoLand or Pycharm.

In the default configuration, the Code Editor is left aligned.

It is just beside the Project Tab. When the Project Tab is minimized then the Code Editor becomes left aligned. This behaviour is not ideal for everyone and it can be changed by adding a custom VM option.

The steps are following:

Open the Custom VM Options by Searching Edit Custom VM Option.

The Custom VM Options should open.

-Xms128m
-Xmx2029m
-XX:ReservedCodeCacheSize=240m
-XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC
-XX:SoftRefLRUPolicyMSPerMB=50
-ea
-XX:CICompilerCount=2
-Dsun.io.useCanonPrefixCache=false
-Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true
-Djdk.http.auth.tunneling.disabledSchemes=""
-XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError
-XX:-OmitStackTraceInFastThrow
-Djdk.attach.allowAttachSelf

Add -Deditor.distraction.free.mode=true into the list of present VM options.

So, The new content will be:

-Xms128m
-Xmx2029m
-XX:ReservedCodeCacheSize=240m
-XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC
-XX:SoftRefLRUPolicyMSPerMB=50
-ea
-XX:CICompilerCount=2
-Dsun.io.useCanonPrefixCache=false
-Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true
-Djdk.http.auth.tunneling.disabledSchemes=""
-XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError
-XX:-OmitStackTraceInFastThrow
-Djdk.attach.allowAttachSelf
-Deditor.distraction.free.mode=true

Restart your application.
Now the center alignment should have been applied.

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Center align code to reduce Distraction In Idea, Goland, Pycharm

Change to center alignment code editor for Intelliji IDEs

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