How to stop the "Run" window from appearing every time
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I'm very new to IntelliJ. When I run a java application, the "Run" window appears. I minimize it, edit my code, relaunch the app and the Run window appears again. Is there a way to have the Run window go away permanently (but still update itself in the background) and not appear until I click it again? It's always taking up valuable screen real estate and there are many hours where I'm coding html/js etc and there is nothing appearing in the Run window that is valuable to me at that time so I don't want the hassle and "break in my flow" of minimizing the window every time.
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You can set it to Undock viewing mode. The tool window will be closed once you switch focus. If tool window would never show up it could have been confusing to understand that there is a process/run configuration launched.
Thanks for the response. I do use the "undock" mode, but I find it could be improved yet. So I launch an application, the window appears. Now if I click with my mouse in the code editor, I would prefer to have the window minimize again. Same with pressing "escape" button, that would be nice if pressing "escape" would make the window minimize too.
As a second thought, I would still prefer having a "view mode" where the Run window does not appear until I active it. I think Idea has a popup/notification system, it would be easy to have Idea just show a popup in the corner saying "application is running" or whatever.
I've tested every view mode, but each one of them pops up into the foreground in some fashion, and it interrupts/breaks my flow when for many hours I'm doing work that does not require me to look at the output.
There is also a little red "stop" icon into the toolbar which appears when the application is running, so between the popup notification (which auto hides after a few seconds) and the red "stop" icon in the toolbar, that should be sufficient.
Esc key actually should work to hide the just activated tool window. I found a related request: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-119803 but no requests to never show the tool window. Feel free to create one in YouTrack.