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How do I stop IntelliJ from starting in full-screen mode

Since a recent version upgrade, Intelli/J now starts in full-screen mode. This is fine on OS-X, because the menu auto-appears. But it's rubbish on Ubuntu because the menus are hidden and do not auto-appear.

I can manually drop out of full-screen (ctrl-shift-A then type 'full' then change the option), but it's annoying to have to do this every time I start Intelli/J.

How can I change the startup settings so that full-screen is not enabled by default?

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Rick-777 Avatar asked Sep 02 '15 09:09

Rick-777


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1 Answers

  1. Close all Idea instances
  2. Open <project_dir>/.idea/workspace.xml
  3. Make sure there is a tag preventing fullscreen:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project version="4">
    ...
    <component name="PropertiesComponent">
        ...
        <property name="FullScreen" value="false" />
    </component>
</project>
  1. Save workspace.xml and start Idea again.

Example: https://github.com/angular/atscript-playground/blob/5b2e8a588b28fd906f05d7748a764498b7b2e404/.idea/workspace.xml#L245

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czerny Avatar answered Sep 19 '22 19:09

czerny