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SeriousLee
SeriousLee

Reputation: 1371

IntelliJ IDEA 2017 - Missing Debug window

My Intellij Debugger window went missing and I can't find any resources on how to get it back, the closest think I can get to my problem is a missing console window but that doesn't help. So I'm hoping someone here can help me retrieve it.

This pic shows a normal Intellij IDE (that I got from my friend) that shows the tab that's missing for me (in red) and the area in which this tab normally shows (in yellow).

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And this pic shows my IDE with the missing Debugger window.

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I also opened Intellij's help dialogue which claims that the window will show up when your code hits a break point but that didn't do it for me either.

Upvotes: 10

Views: 16958

Answers (9)

Shweta Srivastava
Shweta Srivastava

Reputation: 1

If debugger toolbar panel went missing, then Under Services panel -> Choose 'options' icon and tick mark 'Show Toolbar'.

Upvotes: 0

Vishwas Shenoy Alevoor
Vishwas Shenoy Alevoor

Reputation: 567

You would have undocked, just look for "dock" sign, click on it. Now debugger will restored to default view enter image description here

Upvotes: 0

Nadun Kulatunge
Nadun Kulatunge

Reputation: 1731

To enable the debug window Click on View -> Tool Windows -> Debug

Or press (Alt+5)

Upvotes: 2

Yugandhar
Yugandhar

Reputation: 1

enter image description here Remove the dev option from run/debug configurations from Command line.

Upvotes: 0

Rahul_Patidar
Rahul_Patidar

Reputation: 11

Try to Restore default layout in console/debugger screen. Its give in image please do check.

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Upvotes: 0

John Tribe
John Tribe

Reputation: 1632

Try button on the right (there should be debugger, console....) enter image description here

Upvotes: 0

OldCurmudgeon
OldCurmudgeon

Reputation: 65889

This is not an answer to the specific question asked but a possible solution to My debug window has disappeared!. My situation was actually with Android Studio but should apply elsewhere.

My symptoms were:

  • I use multiple monitors and after a system crash my debug window vanished.

  • Before the crash my debug window was in window mode on a separate monitor. After the crash it was gone.

  • There was no Debug tab showing on the main window.

  • The Debug entry in the View menu was greyed.

The solution that finally worked was to set a break-point at a location I knew the code would hit, debug my project and make it hit the break-point. The Debug window magically appeared.

Remember to reposition the window correctly before exiting.

Upvotes: 1

Egor
Egor

Reputation: 2674

Try the "restore layout" button at the left toolbar of the debugger toolwindow

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Upvotes: 15

Neyxo
Neyxo

Reputation: 730

Showing a tool window: "Choose View" | "Tool Windows" | "Debug Tool Window" in the main menu.

It as simple as that. There are multiple other things you can try, look here:

https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/manipulating-the-tool-windows.html#show

For example reset your Tool Windows:

You can return to the default workspace layout by choosing "Window" | "Restore Default Layout" (Shift+F12).

Upvotes: 5

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