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N3da
N3da

Reputation: 4643

Open a project in a new window in IntelliJ after "accidentally" clicking remember decision

I wanted to open a new project in a separate window in IntelliJ and I "accidentally" clicked "Remember this decision and don't ask again" and clicked "open in the same window"!

Since I have more than one project it is getting really annoying to switch! Where could I change this setting?

Upvotes: 167

Views: 63158

Answers (9)

balgam
balgam

Reputation: 1462

In Intellij 2024, this got changed as well. There is not settings under File. You can find it under

Appearance & Behavior | System Settings | Project as could be seen from the screenshot below

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Upvotes: 2

Ricardo Zanini
Ricardo Zanini

Reputation: 1151

In Intellij 2022 it has changed to File | Settings/Preferences | Appearance & Behavior | System Settings | Project, then in the Open Project in, select Ask.

Upvotes: 7

Sanjay Giri
Sanjay Giri

Reputation: 31

Follow step->

  1. File
  2. Settings
  3. Appearance and Behaviour
  4. System setting
  5. Under project setting chooses New Window "Radio Button". enter image description here

Upvotes: 3

Jiří Zeman
Jiří Zeman

Reputation: 21

Press ctrl + alt + s (settings)

Write Manage Projects

Is it Open Recent / Manage Projects...

Click on it and bind it

Upvotes: 0

Vladimir Gilevich
Vladimir Gilevich

Reputation: 861

In IntelliJ IDEA 2016.x you can find it by path:

IntelliJ IDEA
  -> Preferences
    -> Appearance & Behavior
      -> System Settings : Project Opening preferences

Upvotes: 10

Sun
Sun

Reputation: 3564

Answer already there, But I like to give short cut.

  1. Press Ctrl + Alt + S.
  2. Write 'System Settings' in search box and press enter.
  3. Open 'System Settings' in results below.
  4. You can see 'Project Opening' there is three options, select which way you want.

    Not only for this for anything, search with word works faster than navigating all the tabs. For example if you want to change font size, search for font. You can see where and all it there.

Note: Some times it searching word not show in search results below. But it will appear if you open tabs in the search result. Like above, if you search 'Project Opening', it not appearing in result below, but it there in 'System Settings'.

Upvotes: 3

Peter Gromov
Peter Gromov

Reputation: 18931

It can be changed in in File | Settings/Preferences | Appearance & Behavior | System Settings | Project Opening (or, before version 15, File | Settings/Preferences | General | Project Opening)

Upvotes: 238

trailing slash
trailing slash

Reputation: 891

In IDEA 14 and IDEA 15, this can be found in Settings | Appearance & Behavior | System Settings -> Project Opening.

Upvotes: 15

Christian
Christian

Reputation: 6430

In addition to the previous answers by Peter and Trailing Slash, Ctrl-clicking on a project in the "recently opened" list (File > Reopen Project) will open it in a new window - at least on Windows, running IntelliJ 14.0.3 Community edition. Useful if you only want to open a new window from time to time... :)

Unfortunately, this doesn't work with File > Open...

Upvotes: 37

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