Run Tool Window

Run | Run
View | Tool Windows | Run
Alt+4

The Run tool window displays output generated by your application. If you are running multiple applications, each one is displayed in a tab named after the run/debug configuration applied.

The appearance of each tab depends on the type of the application being run and can include additional toolboxes and panes.

• Run Tool Window
  • Run Toolbar
  • Context menu
  • Console Toolbar
  • Karma Server tab
• Deployment Console
• Logs Tab
• Test Runner Tab
• Export Test Results
• Groovy Shell
• Interactive Groovy Console
• Play Framework (Play Console)
• manage.py

The main toolbar of the Run tool window lets you rerun, stop, pause, or terminate an application. The following table contains descriptions of the buttons that are common for most applications.

Run Toolbar

Item	Tooltip and shortcut	Description
	Rerun Ctrl+F5	Click this button to stop the current application and run it again. When an application is stopped (), this button toggles to .
	Rerun Ctrl+F5	Click this button to rerun the current application. This button appears, when an application is stopped (). When an application is running, this button toggles to .
	Pause Output	Click this button to have the process output paused. Note that the button is not available for Run/Debug Configuration: Node JS, Run/Debug Configuration: Node JS Remote Debug, and Run/Debug Configuration: NodeUnit.
	Dump Threads Ctrl+Break	Click this button to dump all threads of the current process showing their status in the Sun format. Note that the button is not available for Run/Debug Configuration: Node JS, Run/Debug Configuration: Node JS Remote Debug, and Run/Debug Configuration: NodeUnit.
	Exit	Click this button to terminate the current process gracefully using in-process internal mechanisms. Note that the button is not available for Run/Debug Configuration: Node JS, Run/Debug Configuration: Node JS Remote Debug, and Run/Debug Configuration: NodeUnit.
	Stop Ctrl+F2	Click this button to terminate the current process externally by means of the standard shutdown script. Clicking the button once invokes soft kill allowing the application to catch the SIGINT event and perform graceful termination (on Windows, the Ctrl+C event is emulated). After the button is clicked once, it is replaced with indicating that subsequent click will lead to force termination of the application, e.g. on Unix SIGKILL is sent.
	Restore Layout	Click this button to to have the changes to the current layout abandoned and return to the default state.
	Pin	Use to pin or unpin the tab. If a tab is pinned, the results for the next command are shown on a new tab.
	Close Ctrl+Shift+F4	Click this button to close the selected tab of the Run tool window and terminate the current process.
	Help F1	Use this icon or shortcut to open the corresponding help page.

Context menu

Console Toolbar

Item	Tooltip and shortcut	Description
	Up/down the Stack Trace Ctrl+Alt+Up Ctrl+Alt+Down	Click this button to navigate up or down in the stack trace and have the cursor jump to the corresponding location in the source code.
	Use Soft Wraps	Click this button to toggle the soft wrap mode of the output.
	Scroll to the end	Click this button to navigate to the bottom of the stack trace and have the cursor jump to the corresponding location in the source code.
	Print	Click this button to send the console text to the default printer.
	Clear All	Click this button to remove all text from the console. This function is also available on the context menu of the console.
	Toggle tasks executions/text mode	Click this button to view Gradle task execution in a tree mode.

Karma Server tab

The tab is shown only when you run JavaScript unit tests using the Karma test runner. Use the tab to view and analyze information from the server. For details, see Testing JavaScript with Karma.