Distraction Free Mode 'randomly' adds breakpoints
Hello,
I recently started programming in Distraction Free mode in IntelliJ (2016.2.4). I love the center-alligned text with none of the clutter on my screen, but I stumbled upon an odd issue I have been trying to explain for some days but I can not really come to a conclusion.
Somehow when I am in distraction free mode, random breakpoints get added whilst I am programming. There seems to be no consistency as to when they get added. I am using shortcuts for a lot of the tasks so I first thought I must accidentally be hitting the breakpoint shortcuts but I have excluded that to be the case. As my shortcuts that I am using whilst coding are not similar to the ones I use for debugging.
This behaviour does not happen when I am not using Distraction Free mode.
I realise that this post is not a lot of information to go on, but maybe someone else experienced a this problem as well and can provide further insight.
The breakpoints are not similar in distraction free mode, so when I rebuild the program and run it (all with shortcuts), suddenly when testing the code I will hit a random breakpoint, and then have to disable it, continue etc.. It's just a slight annoyance. The workaround is to run with breakpoints muted all the time, but after some time of doing this the breakpoint list becomes rather big.
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Since breakpoint is set by simply clicking on the left gutter area and in the distraction free mode this area becomes really wide, it's easy to click there and set the breakpoint by accident.
Thanks for such a fast reply Serge!
It could be that indeed. I will see what happens when I stop using the mouse around that region for a while. Hopefully this solves the problem. I could not immediatly find a setting that allows me to disable this feature. Am I just overlooking the feature or does it really not exist?
Thanks again!
There is no way to disable breakpoint placement on click.
Fair enough, thank you!