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What is preventing ctrl-alt-m from reaching IntelliJ on Windows 10?
I had the same problem. Turns out NVidia's shadow play catches this shortcut by default as stated here. Apparently all the JetBrains products react the same way. So this will fix the same experience ...
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Does IntelliJ IDEA have the concept of 'workspace' similar to eclipse with multiple maven projects open in parallel?
I used Eclipse for about 5 years and have now been using IntelliJ for about one year. I eventually came to the conclusion that what IntelliJ calls a "project" is basically what Eclipse calls a "...
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Cannot update IntelliJ IDEA in Mac OS X
How I managed to resolve this is by changing the owner on IntelliJ .app file, good ol' chown
sudo chown -R <your id> /Applications/IntelliJ\ IDEA\ 14.app
I was in the same situation as the bug ...
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How to "abort" merge in IntelliJ Idea
In the latest versions of IntelliJ (and I suppose other JetBrains products) there is a new option in the "Git branches" menu (bottom right of the screen) conveniently named "Abort Merge&...
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How to "abort" merge in IntelliJ Idea
Happened to me while getting both push and pull failures:
"Push to origin/master was rejected"
"You have not concluded your merge (MERGE_HEAD exists). Please, commit your changes before you can ...
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How to upscale the interface of IntelliJ IDEA/WebStorm?
You can change UI font size in File | Settings | Appearance & Behavior | Appearance, Override default fonts
Update: starting with version 2017.2 IDEA/WebStorm support per-display-DPI mode on ...
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How do I zoom into text with JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA
UPDATED 13JUN22:
It seems that a newer version of IDEA causes the steps listed here to not find Zoom keyword.
Instead, search for font size and make sure you are in the Editor > General section. ...
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Change behavior of initialize fields to create protected properties, rather than private
In PhpStorm 2017.3.2 you can change fields default visibility in the next way:
Project Settings (Ctrl + Alt + S) => Editor => Code Style => PHP => Code Generation tab => Fields Default Visibility.
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How to change brace position in IntelliJ IDE?
Here is the exact working path. I have added screenshot with explanations.
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Intellij ctrl+alt+arrow hotkeys not working
no need to disable IntelHDGraphics control panel (IHDGCP)
just disable shortcuts
1) right click IHDGCP icon in the tray
2) graphics options
3) hot keys
4) disable
thats it.
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How to open terminal in idea?
It should be in View | Tool Windows.
Or try to find it though Search Everywhere (double Shift) after that button for Terminal will appear on Sidebar again.
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Where is located .ideavimrc file?
You won't find it anywhere unless you created it yourself before. File has to be placed in your OS home folder. See https://github.com/JetBrains/ideavim#files for more info
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How to reset or change the Git user IntelliJ is authenticating with?
On Windows 10:
Remove or update the Credentials stored in Windows Credentials at Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Credential Manager.
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Cannot update IntelliJ IDEA in Mac OS X
I had similar problem, but in my case, the computer is shared, so I can't change owner of folder. But I'm on admin group. By running this command update works.
sudo chmod -R g+w /Applications/IntelliJ\...
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Do I need the cache directories from old versions of IntelliJ IDEA?
You don't need these directories and they can be safely deleted. In my case, these directories appear to have been cleaned up automatically for me for past versions as I only have the latest version's ...
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Unable to find javadoc command: The environment variable JAVA_HOME is not correctly set
This is because IntelliJ's internal consoles use their own environment. You can set variables for Maven in the settings dialog under Build, Execution, Deployment > Build Tools > Maven > Runner > ...
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How to solve the problems caused by WSL 2's filesystem changes?
Same issue(s) as a fullstack dev I routinely find myself needing to run a build process in WSL2 and change files in Windows (i.e. SVG files in Affinity publisher, inkscape, etc.).
Move your project(s) ...
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Can't type/delete in IntelliJ Idea, OSX El Capitan 4
Turn off Vim Emulator from Tools in the intelliJ:
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How to open terminal in idea?
I just had the same problem in IntelliJ Ultimate 2017.2.3, but Terminal wasn't in View | Tool Windows either.
I have discovered that Terminal was a plugin that I had disabled.
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How can I delete Intellij's local history for a single file?
Didn't find a way to delete a single file, only the entire local history.
On the main menu, choose File | Invalidate Caches/Restart. The Invalidate Caches message appears informing you that the ...
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Specifying the groovy distribution in intelliJ when creating a new project
For me, running on Mac with HomeBrew, it was
/usr/local/Cellar/groovy/2.4.5/libexec
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Github: why do I appear twice on every commit?
Why does my name "Bernhard" appear twice? Note that there are also two avatars at the start of the commit message.
Git always keeps track of two people: the person who wrote the patch (author) and ...
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IntelliJ "No Tasks Available" on running TestNG
When I had this problem ("No tasks available" message when trying to run a test), what worked for me was to Re-import the project from the Gradle view (i.e. in the Gradle view, right-click on the ...
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IntelliJ IDEA: SSH Connection error "Unable to reach settlement" while same connection is possible in Filezilla
I am having the same problem.
in .IntelliJIdea2019.2/system/log/idea.log I see
2019-09-22 13:43:58,474 [649136973] WARN - z.sshj.transport.TransportImpl - Dying because - Unable to reach a ...
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How do you update curl on Windows 10?
Don't do that. Install curl in another folder and add it to the path before c:\windows\system32.
That way you will use the updated version without having to mess with the SO security.
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Intellij ctrl+alt+arrow hotkeys not working
Confirmed, on my machine disabling hotkeys did nothing.
Sadly I had no administration privileges for disabling that service on my machine. Other solution that works, is to change the hotkey from the ...
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IntelliJ IDE: How to add one or more margins
Well what do you know! The latest release of PyCharm (2017.3) has this feature, just when I decided to look for it.
Quoting Rustam Vishnyakov from the link Florian posted:
You can set it up at ...
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Change behavior of initialize fields to create protected properties, rather than private
I've searched around for answer to this question.
What I've found out is that you cannot modify behavior of this function without modifying PHP plugin. This plugin is in fact responsible for behavior ...
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Intellij ctrl+alt+arrow hotkeys not working
first, open Intel Hd Graphics Control Panel and go to Options and Support, then doing follow setting:
Manage Hot Keys:
Enable
✓ Disable
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