To customize your Workspace perspectives:
- Create a new workspace. This way you have a clean start for customization and no changes from an existing modified workspace.
- Close the views that you do not want to use for your project manually.
- For customizing the buttons and menus visibility in the desired perspective:
- Select Window > Customize Perspective from the IDE menu bar.
The Customize Perspective - <perspective name> dialog box appears.
Figure 1.
Customize Perspective - <perspective name> Dialog Box

- Click the desired tab to select the desired settings for tool bar, menu, command groups and shortcuts visibility.
- Click OK.
The Customize Perspective - <perspective name> dialog box closes.
- To save the changes you have made to the IDE's perspective, select Window > Save Perspective As from the IDE menu bar.
The Save Perspective As dialog box appears.
Figure 2. Save Perspective As Dialog Box
- Select OK.
- The Overwrite Perspective dialog box appears.
- Click Yes to overwrite the previous default setting with the changes you made.