Reputation: 881

keyboard shortcut to switch between project frames in Intellij IDEA

Is there a keyboard shortcut to switch between project frames in intellij?

I have two projects open and the only way I've found to select the non-active project is to drag the top window/frame out of the way and then click on it.

Upvotes: 67

Answers (24)

Ashish Singh

Reputation: 479

If you have opened multiple projects and want to switch between them, then you can use:

CMD + `

that is, command and tilde (you can get it just above tab button).

This is for Mac OS.

Upvotes: 4

Sameen

Reputation: 734

I wanted to switch between the top and bottom frames in Zen Mode and used the following shortcut to switch between them:

⌥ Tab

Upvotes: 0

Sandeep Khantwal

Reputation: 381

fast forward to 2022 and you get...

Upvotes: 14

Eric Tan

Reputation: 1463

I am using Mac Big Sur 11.2.3 plus IntelliJ 2019. to switch among windows, I use the following 3 keys.

⌥ ⌘ `

Upvotes: 0

Jeff T.

Reputation: 2271

For Mac,

Command + Shift + [ or ]

works in full screen mode.

Upvotes: 1

Ganesh Kumar Marimuthu

Reputation: 71

Go to Intellij Preferences.
Under Keymap find Activate Next Window.
Right click on it and choose Add Keyboard Shortcut.
Press cmd + ` and click OK.
Click OK to close Preference window.

Map key to Activate Next Window

Upvotes: 6

ferbs

Reputation: 881

I've stumbled upon an intellij-native popup for switching projects. To find it and set a key mapping:

cmd+shift+a (if macosx; shift+shift might work cross-platform) for the find-command popup menu
type/search for the "open project windows" command
option+enter (or equiv) to assign a key mapping

This Project Windows popup lets you type to filter and select by project name.

Upvotes: 8

Adil Hussain

Reputation: 32103

If you're a MacOS user, as well as the Command+` and Command+Shift+` keyboard shortcuts which IntelliJ offers to toggle between IntelliJ windows, the OS-level Control+↓ keyboard shortcut is an excellent way to see and navigate between windows of the current app. The screenshot below shows the view which it offers. If you turn on App Exposé in your Trackpad preferences, you can also get to this view by swiping down with three fingers.

Upvotes: 1

Echoinacup

Reputation: 482

I am just put a new update her for MAC OS on version (20220.1.4) it has new: command + option + stands for the next and command + option + shift + stands for back

Upvotes: 0

igonejack

Reputation: 2532

Have been searching solution for macOS for long time and found this great plugin finally https://github.com/krasa/FrameSwitcher.

Switching intelliJ windows by searching project name including recent opened ones.

Upvotes: 0

larham1

Reputation: 12216

On osx, I use the standard keystroke (both Command+~ or Command+` seem to work) for switching windows within an application.

On windows, I use alt+tab.

Upvotes: 92

Krishnan

Reputation: 305

In ubuntu, switching between multiple windows inside an IntelliJ, use alt + ~

Upvotes: 1

Nayan Patel

Reputation: 1761

In ubuntu 18.10, you can use the below key combination for toggling betwee two open instances -

alt + `

Upvotes: 2

kgui

Reputation: 4165

On Windows the following should work:

Ctrl + tab

Upvotes: 2

Michal Kordas

Reputation: 10925

If you have multiple projects just switching between them may be too tedious.

In such case it's better to open Window menu using ALT+W and choose project from list.

To make quick search working for project names you need to open Window menu as popup. To do it just assign keyboard shortcut for it:

I chose CTRL+ALT+W as my shortcut to open the following window with project quick search:

Upvotes: 17

andrhamm

Reputation: 4411

Annoyingly, you can use "Cmd + `" to switch through your windows but it doesn't loop back to the first window when you reach the end. You have to use "Shift + Cmd + `" to go in the reverse direction.

Upvotes: 35

Christian Nilsson

Reputation: 750

for Windows, try:

Crtl + Alt + [
Ctrl + Alt + ]

Upvotes: 7

Somnath Mali

Reputation: 46

On MAC CMD + ` will work.

Ensure that you haven't maximised windows.

Upvotes: 0

user3082393

Reputation: 205

for Mac OS X, try:

option + command + [
option + command + ]

Upvotes: 18

Amr Mostafa

Reputation: 23947

Ctrl + Shift + [

Ctrl + Shift + ]

Does it for me. On both Intellij IDEA and PyCharm.

Upvotes: 2

ktamlyn

Reputation: 4719

2013 answer for people who want an "up to date" answer:

If you maximize (full screen) all your project windows and keep them grouped together in "mission control" then I find the three finger swipe works really well to move between projects.

Upvotes: 3

billygoat

Reputation: 21984

I was struggling with the same issue. This is how I dealt with it.

If you have set up your mac for expose ( by default F10 for application windows), then you could use that keyboard shortcut. This is the quickest way I know and since I usually have around 5 project windows I use this fairly frequently.

Upvotes: 0

ssoler

Reputation: 5264

I'm working on a Mac OS X. Right click on IntelliJ dock icon shows all your open projects.

Upvotes: 0

CrazyCoder

Reputation: 401877

There is no such shortcut by default, but it should be possible to implement this feature as a plug-in.

Upvotes: 1

keyboard shortcut to switch between project frames in Intellij IDEA

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