JetBrains Fleet 1.10 Help

Settings

Fleet provides fine-grained control over its functionality and appearance. The corresponding settings are managed through a set of .json files. File-based approach allows for simple management and sharing of settings, at the same time providing the ability to handle more advanced scenarios like applying specific settings in a particular context.

This topic explains how settings work, describes the steps to configure them, and provides reference that will help you find the required setting and learn more about its meaning.

Settings layers

In Fleet, there are multiple layers of settings:

Settings layers diagram
  • Fleet default settings – settings embedded in the IDE or its plugins. These settings have the lowest priority and only apply when no other layer overrides them.

  • User settings – your personal settings. These settings override the default IDE settings.

  • Workspace settings – settings specified for a particular folder. This layer has the highest priority.

If a layer with higher priority does not override a setting, the value from a lower-priority layer is used. Ultimately, if the setting is not defined anywhere, the value from the default layer is used, which provides fallback values for all settings.

User settings

User settings are your personal settings. If you are working in a collaborative environment, they will only affect you and will not be visible to your teammates. User settings apply everywhere, except for workspaces that have their own settings.

User settings are managed in the Settings/Preferences tab ⌘,. If you want to edit user settings through a file, use the ⌘⇧, or select Show settings.json in the Settings tab.

Edit user settings through settings.json

  • Press ⌘⇧, to open settings.json. A separate editor tab opens. In the opened tab, specify the required settings using JSON syntax.

    For available settings and their description, refer to Settings reference section.

    Editing settings in settings.json

    Changes are applied immediately when you save the file. By default, files are saved automatically, so you don't need to do anything unless you have turned off the auto-save feature.

Reset to defaults

  • Press ⌘⇧, to open settings.json and clear the contents of the file.

User settings file locations

Fleet settings are stored under .fleet in the user directory:

Windows

C:\Users\user_directory\.fleet\settings.json

Linux

/home/user_directory/.fleet/settings.json

macOS

/Users/user_directory/.fleet/settings.json

Workspace settings

In addition to user settings, which apply globally to all files, you can specify settings for a particular workspace. They will only apply to files in this folder, and will be shared among all the users of the workspace.

Edit workspace settings through the menu

  1. Open the workspace, whose settings you want to edit.

  2. Go to Settings/Preferences ⌘, and open the tab corresponding to your workspace.

    The 'SPRING-PETCLINIC' tab in Settings/Preferences

Edit workspace settings through settings.json

  1. In the workspace settings menu, select Show settings.json.

    Alternatively, open the .fleet folder in the workspace, whose settings you want to edit. If no settings have been defined for the workspace, and the .fleet folder does not exist, create the folder and the settings.json file in it.

  2. Populate settings.json with the required settings using JSON syntax.

    For available settings and their description, refer to Settings reference section.

    Editing settings in settings.json

    Changes are applied immediately when you save the file. By default, files are saved automatically, so you don't need to do anything unless you have turned off the auto-save feature.

Setting contexts

You can apply or override specific settings depending on the type of the file. For example, you can choose to only enable code vision for a specific language.

The syntax to achieve this is:

{ "[language]": { "setting-key-1": value, "setting-key-2": value } }

For example, if you want to enable soft wraps for HTML files, specify the following in a settings file:

{ "[HTML]": { "editor.softWrapEnabled": true } }

Feature flags

There is a special type of settings called feature flags These settings are used for controlling features that are temporary or experimental. Feature flags start with ff, for example: ff.logoOnMac.

Settings reference

This chapter provides the descriptions for settings grouped by subsystem to which they apply:

General Fleet settings

allowSubpixelFontPositioning

Do allow font glyph subpixel positioning

autoSave

Controls whether the edited file is saved automatically. Auto-save happens on every edit with the delay of 1 second.

backend.fsdMode

FSD mode

backend.noDotIdea

Don't generate .idea in workspace root folder

beepOnUnhandledInput

Configure which inputs should trigger a beep sound when unhandled

closeEmptySplit

Close empty split after closing the last tab

collapseMacroOnSave

Enable text substitution in configuration files on save if the text matches a registered macro

createScratchOnNewFile

Create scratch on new file

editor.alwaysShowHorizontalScrollbar

Controls whether the horizontal scrollbar should only appear when scrolling.

editor.alwaysShowVerticalScrollbar

Controls whether the vertical scrollbar should only appear when scrolling.

editor.caretShape

Caret shape

editor.distractionFreeMode

Shows/hides editor tabs and moves the code closer to the editor center.

editor.fontFamily

Font family

editor.fontSize

Controls the font size in the editor and terminal.

editor.guides

Visual guides

editor.honorCamelHumps

Use "CamelHumps" words

editor.hoverTooltipDelayMs

Tooltip delay on hover (ms)

editor.indentStyle

Indent using Spaces or Tabs. EditorConfig may override this option

editor.ligatures

Enable font ligatures

editor.lineSpacing

Controls line spacing in the editor and terminal. The interval between lines is calculated as line height multiplied by this setting. Values less than 1.0 are ignored.

editor.markupWithoutSmartMode

Highlight basic syntax errors when Smart Mode is off

editor.overscrollKind

Controls how much blank space there is after the last line of the file.

  • Fixed – five times line height.

  • Half – half editor height.

  • Full – full editor height minus two times line height.

  • None – no overscroll space.

editor.previewTab

Controls whether a separate preview tab should open when selecting a file in the Files view.

editor.pulseEditorCaretWhenBusy

Controls whether the caret should have pulsing animation when the frontend is waiting for response from the workspace.

editor.renderRunInGutter

Show run icons in the gutter

editor.renderWhitespace

Show whitespace

editor.selectIdentifierOnWordSelection

Controls whether an entire identifier should be selected on double-clicking it.

editor.semanticHighlighting

Controls whether code gets highlighted based on its semantics. In contrast with the basic highlighting that is provided by the frontend, semantic highlighting analyzes the syntax tree and takes into account things like whether a symbol is used elsewhere and the like. For a particular type of file, it's the language plugin's responsibility to implement semantic highlighting.

editor.showAutoImportWidget

Show project auto-import widget in the top-right corner

editor.showBreakpoints

Shows/hides breakpoints in the gutter.

A line breakpoint in the gutter
editor.showCodeVision

Shows/hides the following inlay hints at declaration sites:

  • Usages – shows how many times a given symbol is used in the project. Clicking the hint gives a preview of the usages, or navigates you directly to the client code if there is only one usage.

  • Super – the count of classes or interfaces that a given symbol inherits from. Clicking the hint gives a preview of the ancestors, or navigates you directly to the declaration if there is only one ancestor.

  • Run – appears at runnable code like application entry points or tests. Click to run the code.

editor.showDeclarationUsages

Shows/hides the Usages inlay hints. By default, they are shown together with the other hints when editor.showCodeVision is on. This setting allows you to disable them without affecting the other hints.

editor.showFileDetails

Shows/hides the file details in the bottom part of the editor.

editor.showFileStatus

Shows/hides the status indicator in the top-right corner of the editor. It shows the number of warnings and errors or a check mark if the file has none.

File status indicator
editor.showFileTemplatesSuggestion

Suggest file templates for new files

editor.showFloatingDebugPanel

Show floating debug toolbar

editor.showLineNumbers

Shows/hides line numbers in the gutter.

Line numbers in the gutter
editor.showLineStatus

Show git changes in the gutter

editor.showNavBar

Shows/hides the navigation bar in the bottom part of the editor.

Editor navigation bar
editor.showScrollbarMarks

Shows/hides colored stripes on the vertical scrollbar that indicate warnings, errors, TODOs, and so on.

editor.showTabs

Show editor tabs

editor.showTooltipOnHover

Controls whether a tooltip with error description appears when hovering over an error in the source code.

A tooltip with error description
editor.showVisualGuides

Show visual guides in the editor

editor.softWrapEnabled

Enables/disables soft wraps in the editor. When soft wraps are on, the content of the lines that exceed the editor width will be wrapped onto the next line without actually inserting line breaks in the file.

Soft wrap in editor
editor.tabLimit

A number of tabs that can be opened in the editor simultaneously

editor.tabSize

Tab size

enableIndenter

Automatically indent code fragments on editing, for example, after using a line break, closing a brace, inserting a snippet, and so on.

enableTypeAheadInTerminal

Enable predictive rendering of symbols in terminal to reduce perceived latency

excluded

Specifies directories that will not be indexed or scanned for configuration files. The directories are specified relative to the workspace root in the following format: "excluded": ["dir1", "dir2"]

ff.alwaysDisplayHighlightedFragmentsInGotoFile

When set to true Goto File panel will try to display all highlighted fragments of the query in the results, even when fragments are tiny.

ff.autoSyncEditors

Automatically sync opened editors during a collaboration session

ff.expandGitDiffByDefault

Expand git diff by default

ff.formatWithIndenter

Use indenter to format files when Smart Mode is disabled

ff.globalStatusBar

Use a single status bar instead of one per editor split

ff.panelButtonsOnTheSides

Display panel buttons on the sides of the window instead of the title bar

ff.previewAndPrioritiseFileSymbolsInGotoEverywhere

When set to true will always display file symbols at the top of Goto Everywhere panel, even when the query is empty.

ff.runIconsAfterLineNumbers

Display run icon right after line numbers in gutter

ff.showDaemonPostlines

Show errors and warnings as a widget at the end of the end of the corresponding lines

ff.showSuspendIcons

Show icons for suspend calls on the gutter

files.compactDirectories

Show compact folders

files.exclude

Exclude files

files.keyboardNavigation

Use "select" for the basic mode where keyboard navigation updates the selection, and "highlight" for the advanced mode where keyboard navigation only highlights an item with a rectangular cursor and items are explicitly selected by pressing space. This might be helpful to make file previews less distracting when navigating with the keyboard.

files.openFileMode

Opens files mode

files.toggleFolderMode

Expand folder mode

fontEdging

Choose aliasing setting value for font rendering

fontHinting

Choose hinting setting value for font rendering

fus.sendAllowed

Send usage statistics to JetBrains. This includes anonymous data about the features and plugins you use, the project type, errors and exceptions, etc. Please note that this will not include personal data or any sensitive information such as source code, file names etc.

git.autoFetch

Specifies whether git fetch should automatically run with a regular interval. This is used for showing incoming/outgoing commits in the Git panel.

git.fetchInterval

Specifies the time interval in minutes for git.autoFetch.

git.push.confirm

Show confirmation on push and sync

git.revert.confirm

Show confirmation on revert

git.user

Specifies remote to custom git user mapping. Longer remote is preferred, you can use `*` for default custom git user

goto_panel.showShortcuts

Display helper keyboard shortcuts in Goto Panel

inputSequenceTimeoutMilliseconds

Maximum time between inputs in a sequence (ms)

internalMode

Enables actions, UI elements, and statistics that are used for internal development purposes.

keymap

Keymap

launchTerminalOnOpen

Controls whether a terminal session should be started when opening a workspace.

localBigFileMinimumThreshold

Local files of this size (in MB) and larger will only open after an additional confirmation.

lsp.use.jbclangd

Download and use JetBrains clangd

mergeDirectoriesInPlacesTree

Merge directory nodes in Usages and Search Tab results tree when grouping by directories is enabled.

Disabled:

src/ |- org/ | |- name/ | | |- package | | | |- file.ext | | | | |- match

Enabled:

src/org/name/package/ |- file.ext | |- match
preferedRenderApi

Allow to choose prefered render API

remoteBigFileMinimumThreshold

Remote files of this size (in MB) and larger will only open after an additional confirmation.

restoreWorkspacesOnStartup

Reopen workspaces from previous session on next Fleet startup

showEmptyStateOnLastClosedWindow

Show startup page when closing the last workspace

showShortcuts

Makes the shortcuts that you are using at the moment appear on the screen. This may be useful for screencasts and demos.

Shortcut is displayed on screen on pressing it
toolchains

Enable toolchains for the folder or its subfolders

trimTrailingSpacesOnSave

Controls whether Fleet should remove whitespace at the end of the lines when the file is saved. The lines that currently have carets on them are not trimmed.

useModifiedKeyIdentifiers

Identify keys as their modified version, for example "shift-!" instead of "shift-1", depending on your keyboard layout. Please note that the existing keymap will not be updated automatically, so you will need to manually update all key bindings which are affected by this change.

useSystemFileDialog

Use system file dialog in local workspaces

zoomLevel

Zoom

Running code

run.recentConfigurationsSize

Size of recent configurations list in Run & Debug popup

terminal.TypeAheadLatency

Specifies the typeahead latency threshold (in milliseconds).When the latency between the terminal and the frontend is high, it causes laggy experience. To mitigate that, the typeahead mechanism is used. It provides an illusion of instant feedback by predicting the current terminal state.Due to differences in terminals' operation, the predictions may not be correct in some cases. For this reason, it makes sense to only use typeahead when the latency is high.Fleet automatically turns typeahead on and off depending on the current terminal latency. The recommended threshold value is 50 ms, which is also the default one, but you can set it manually, if required.

terminal.caretShape

Caret shape

terminal.clearTerminalOnCmdK

Clear terminal on ⌘K

terminal.copyOnSelection

Copy text from terminal on selection

terminal.enableFocusEditorOnEsc

Focus main panel on Esc

terminal.enableFocusPanelsInApps

Focus main panel on Esc in interactive programs like vim

terminal.fontFamily

Font family

terminal.fontSize

Font size in pixels

terminal.lineSpacing

Line spacing

terminal.profiles

Configure available shells

.NET

dotnet.dotnetCli

One or more .NET CLI tools, specified as a full path to the executable. Default installation of 'dotnet.exe' is detected automatically in Smart Mode.

dotnet.dotsettings.enabled

Whether to read and apply settings from ReSharper configuration files: 'SolutionName.sln.DotSettings', 'SolutionName.sln.DotSettings.user', and the global configuration file. Enabled by default.

dotnet.msbuild

MSBuild tools, specified as a full path to the executable. Path to the latest available MSBuild is detected and applied automatically in Smart Mode.

Java/Kotlin

java.runtimes

List of JDKs/JREs homes on the local machine

jps.version

JPS standalone version

jps.wrapper.version

JPS wrapper version

kotlin.version

Kotlin dependencies version

Code-related settings

completion.autoPopupDelay

Specifies the delay after which the completion popup appears if not invoked explicitly. For explicit invocations, the popup appears immediately regardless of this setting.

quickFixes.preview.contextLines

Number of lines to show around changed lines in the Quick Fixes preview

quickFixes.preview.mergeDeletesInserts

Merge consecutive insertions and deletions in the Quick Fixes preview

quickFixes.preview.useRealDiff

Show insertions and deletions on the same lines in the Quick Fixes preview

rename.autoRenameOnTyping

Rename symbol usages automatically when typing inside symbol definitions

rename.selectOnRename

Controls whether an entire symbol should be selected when you invoke the Rename refactoring (Code | Refactor | Rename) on it.

JavaScript

formatter.prettier.enabled

Enables Prettier to be used instead of the default formatter, when it's installed in the project

formatter.prettier.glob

Specifies files with glob to which Prettier is applied

Go

go.roots

List of the Go compilers available on your local machine

Python

python.interpreters

List of the python interpreters installed on your local machine

Last modified: 07 December 2022