Bond Han

Question How can one modify the font for Quick Documentation and Reader Mode in IntelliJ IDEA? Even after trying to modify the font settings under Settings | Editor | Font, the change is not reflec...

Problem A user accidentally set the font size in IntelliJ IDEA to a value high (e.g. 1000) that is causing the application interface to become unusable for navigation. Opening the application shows...

Summary When building or running a Spring project from IntelliJ IDEA, the IDE may fail with the error: java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: insufficient memory This error has two common causes: insufficien...

Question How to prevent PhpStorm from searching through the code of specific libraries when using 'Find in Path' (Ctrl+Shift+F), without having to fully exclude these directories from the project? ...

Problem For users who have AT&T as their ISP, when an invalid/outdated URL is accessed from inside the IDE(could be any plugin), the AT&T DNS is unable to resolve the URL and therefore does their d...

Question Why are file extensions and default Java icon not visible in the Project tool window for Java files? Some users expect this: but actually see this: Answer Short answer: By default, Jav...

Problem After modifying the account email address in a JetBrains account, the old email address is still displayed in IntelliJ IDEA. Resolution Clear Cache: Navigate to File | Invalidate Caches....

Problem When opening a project from IDE, if a network share which was previously mounted becomes disconnected, the UI will be stuck at "loading..." for quite a while. Cause Our current design is t...

Problem The terminal prompt (PS1) cannot be customized as expected within IntelliJ IDEA terminal. Changes made to PS1 using commands like export PS1='my prompts $' do not reflect in the terminal pr...

Problem When executing the following command line in Powershell while configuring Firewall rules for WSL: New-NetFirewallRule -DisplayName "WSL" -Direction Inbound -InterfaceAlias "vEthernet (WSL)"...