Solved: Terminal will not return to docked mode Follow
I've seen several posts on this issue, but none of the solutions presented are working. This issue has been plaguing me for a while now. At this time I'm using webstorm v2018.3. When I recently started a new project the terminal is docked, but for my primary project it will not dock with the following solutions.
1) With the terminal in windowed mode, if I deselect windowed mode from the termainal it goes to floating mode.
2) In the menu Window > Active Tool Window the option to go to docked mode is greyed out. If I deselect windowed mode from this menu it goes to floating mode, and docked mode is still greyed out.
If anyone has a solution, I'm all ears, this is extremely frustrating.
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Elena, your "not the best solution" ended up pointing me in the right direction. I went into the workspace.xml for the newer project where this isn't an issue and copied the line below. I replaced the terminal line in the problematic project with this line and it seems to be working now. I wish the solution was more straight forward than that, but at the end of the day I'm just happy to have my terminal docked again. Thanks!
<window_info id="Terminal" active="true" weight="0.2487725" visible="true" order="10" anchor="bottom"/>
Looks similar to https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-187306..
Deleting project .idea/workspace.xml should help to restore the default layout, but it's not the best solution of course...
Hi everyone! Today I bumped with the same problem. After reading your comments I modified the method:
1. Close the project
2. open file .idea/workspace.xml (located in project folder) and found the line where id="Terminal" is located
3. on this line delete type="FLOATING"
4. Reopen the project
Really annoying issue, hope Jetbrains team will fix it.
Yes seems similar to that issue, doesn't seem to provide any new solutions though. Tried Shift+F12 as well. That seems to minimize the terminal, but doesn't dock it back into the IDE window.
Have almost the same problem. Once i actived the window mode on a project for the terminal i cannot use it anymore. Terminal crashes or disapears.
Unfortunatly there is Terminal entry in my workspace.xml that could be changed:/
The settings layout has changed recently, some information that used to be stored in `.idea/workspace.xml`, like the windows size and positions, etc. is now stored globally in IDE configuration directory
Please open <IDE config dir>/workspace folder, locate the .xml file that corresponds to your project and search it for "Terminal" entries there