Ekaterina Valeeva

Background/Situation In the IDE UI, Tool windows might have different placements that can be chosen in the tool window context menu, Move To... It's also possible to drag and drop tool window butt...

Problem Support screen readers option gets automatically enabled in the IDE File | Settings | Appearance & Behavior | Appearance, Accessibility after the IDE restarts. This causes the button toolt...

Problem In certain macOS configurations, scrolling might stutter and not look smooth and responsive enough. Cause There are the following known reasons for this: Editor scrolling performance downg...

Problem Previously, the Git branch popup was available at the bottom of the window. In the new UI, this functionality has been moved to the VCS widget in the main toolbar at the top. Solution Right...

Problem In the new UI, clicking on a line number sets a breakpoint instead of selecting the line. Solution Right-click the gutter and disable Appearance | Breakpoints Over Line Numbers.

Problem In the new UI, code folding arrows in the editor gutter appear on hover and disappear when you move the mouse away. Solution In Settings | Editor | General | Code Folding, select Always ne...

Problem In the new UI, the project breadcrumbs are moved to the bottom. It's harder to see there and conflicts with status bar messages. Solution From the main menu, go to View | Appearance | Navig...

Question How to reduce the heights of toolbars and tool window headers, scale down spacings and paddings, and make icons and buttons smaller in the new UI? Answer Go to the main menu and select Vie...

Question Starting from version 2024.2, the new UI became the default in IntelliJ IDEs (official blog post about the change). How to configure the new UI so that it looks and feels like the old (cla...

Question How do I open tool windows side-by-side on top, and put bottom tool window buttons to a horizontal bar at the lower edge of the IDE window, like I did in the Classic UI? Answer You can set...