How to dock floating Watches window?

There is no ability to "stick" floating window.

you can only dock it back to the debug toolwindow.

Hmm. How can I dock it back? I can't find any way.

You need to drag the watches tab itself (where icon with googles located) from the detached window to the container
It may be easier to restore layout (there is a button for that on the left toolbar in debugger toolwindow)

I have a Watches floating window, not a tab. I had tried to hover it over the Debug tab, but nothing happens.

Isn't there a tab inside the floating window?

Ah, I see what you mean. That's... very far from intuitive.
Thanks for helping.

Andrei, I know exactly what you mean, it was frustrating the first few times, then the last time I just gave up trying to remember as it wouldn't 'click' back into place !

The developers need to understand that (1) if it was easy dragging it OUT, it should be easy reversing that and (2) with the horrible design of laptop touchpads where you can accidentally touch the pad multiple points and suddenly you see a runaway debug window and we spend time moving it out of the way

The last few times I had to have help from others - the Restore button should be in a prime and intuitive spot. AND in the runaway window. Please.

I just ran into this issue myself with the console tab.  I'm dragging the window around trying to dock with no luck.  No menu items help.  Restore layout didn't help.  I just dealt with it until I read this article.  Agree that this isn't intuitive (even though it makes sense logically that if you drag out using the tab it makes sense to drag in using the tab).  However, most IDE's I've used let you drag in using the window.

Here's an image describing what should and should not be dragged:

Grab the Tab (not the Window title bar) and drag it around in IntelliJ.  When it gets to a place where it can be docked, you'll see a light blue shading.

This is very frustrating. Second time this happens, found this thread, didn't really help. Little icon to "Restore Layout" didn't dock the window back. Dragging windows and tabs (yuck) didn't work either. In the windows menu, "Docked mode" under "Active Tool Window" was disabled (probably for some good reason).

The only solution was to select in the Window menu the option Restore Default Layout. But I have to say, not very intuitive. Sometimes I use tiling and want switch to floating, sometimes not. Restoring layout every time seems very odd...

> The only solution was to select in the Window menu the option Restore Default Layout. But I have to say, not very intuitive.

Thanks, that fixed it for me! For the next poor soul:

Shift + F12 helped! Thanks Markus Fischer.

But as other fellows said, it's really frustrating and other solutions wouldn't work in Deepin Desktop environment.

Just uncheck floating mode and windows mode. The window goes immediately back to docked mode.

"Just uncheck floating mode and windows mode."

That is exactly what got broken since the new version 2018.1 (still not working in 2018.1.4.) with relation to the Debug tool window. This tool window is now broken and once undocked, it does not want to get docked back. Also the Alt+5 shortcut to hide this window is not working anymore. Alt+5 works to open it though.

there is a related ticket, please follow https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-187306

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I have tried to reproduce the problem on IU-181.5087.20, looks like the problem is fixed, could you please check on this build?

I've encountered the problem when I turned on the "Floating Mode" on. I couldn't go back. "Pinned Mode" and "Docked Mode" disappeared from the dropdown menu. It turned out, that I simply had to click (or rather uncheck) "Floating Mode" again. Everything went back to normal again.

Seriously, it does not work. When selecting the mode to docked it keeps floating.

Jose, what worked for me was clicking on the (already checked) 'Floating Mode' item.  In other words, to float the window, click on 'Floating Mode'.  To dock the window, click on 'Floating Mode' again.  I'm using v2018.3, but I don't think this part of the UI has changed in a while.

'Docked Mode' is in the menu when it's docked, but disappears when it's floating.

"Just uncheck floating mode and windows mode. "

This works at least in my version (PHPstorm 2017.3)

AAAAAARRRG!!!!! How do I dock the "Commit Changes" window?

Romanize

Make sure you have Settings (Preferences on macOS) | Advanced Settings | Enable Commit tool window option enabled.

Then you can dock it as any other tool window:

Diff windows are different again. If you happen to have opened them in a separate window once and they just stay this way, to re-dock select the cog menu and then "Show Diff in Editor Tab":