How to open two terminal windows in IntelliJ IDEA, PyCharm?

Question

Is it possible to open two terminal windows in IntelliJ IDEA (or in any other IDE based on it, like PyCharm)?

Solution 1

In case of terminal toolbar status, you can do one of these options

Also after that you can drag them as tabs and let them be side by side.

Solution 2

You can open multiple tabs and then use the mouse drag them out into the editor area. Then you may want to split the editor vertically to have two consoles side by side. Or you could use one terminal in the tool window and the other up in the editor area.

Solution 3

This worked for me in IntelliJ Idea...

Click the plus icon to open a second terminal window

If you want to split the windows so both shows at the same time, just right-click on the second tab and select horizontal or vertical

Hope it helped someone.

Solution 4

Besides the great answer given by avb (using the + or right click), you can of course also use a hotkey for this (when selected the terminal) press:

MacOs: Command+T / ⌘T

Windows / Linux: Ctrl + T

Note: you can even rename tabs by double clicking on their label.

Solution 5

You can drag terminal tabs into editor view and then use standard horizontal/vertical split to position them wherever you want them.

It's a bit hack since the editor then considers your terminal window a file and names it Local or Local(x) if you have multiple.

Also note, that since IDE considers it a file, you cannot just split the view to get a new instance of terminal. You would have to use the terminal view to create a new tab and then again drag it to the designated area.

This is how it looks:

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Comments

[Bohuslav Burghardt]

Well the embedded terminal support tabs if that's good enough. If you want multiple terminals in one view, then use something like tmux ...

[Max Malysh]

@BohuslavBurghardt I'd like to see them side by side. Thanks for the tab advice though!

[Max Malysh]

Could you add a screenshot, please?

[Janneman96]

Is there a way to split the terminals at the bottom? One in the left bottom corner, one in the right bottom, instead of the full width terminal?

[Adam Parkin]

Is there any way to get two terminals side-by-side in the same view? Ie split the terminal window into two side-by-side terminal windows? VS Code can do this: code.visualstudio.com/docs/editor/… am wondering if Pycharm can.

[Ahmad Behzadi]

@AdamParkin I don't use Pycharm but I don't think be any different between JetBrains tools. After clicking on plus icon and making new tab, then you drag each tab to any other place and let them be side by side.

[episodeyang]

this is completely not related to the question.

[UnsettlingTrend]

This is what I came here for, and still can't find a solution for this @Janneman96

[Janneman96]

I've stopped using IntelliJ as my default editor, I'm using Visual Studio Code now. It happens to have the option to use multiple terminal windows by clicking Terminal>split terminal. The amount of times you can 'split' (add new terminal windows) seems to be only limited by your resolution/screen size.

[tuanngocptn]

this is exactly the answer I need.

[michaelsnowden]

Is there a shortcut to switch between the views?