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Tool windows

Last modified: 20 September 2023

Tool windows provide access to development tasks: viewing your project structure, running and debugging your application, integration with version control systems and other external tools, code analysis, search, navigation, and so on. By default, tool windows are attached to the bottom and sides of the main window. However, you can rearrange and even detach them to use as separate windows, for example, on another monitor.

Tool windows
  1. Project

  2. Commit tool window

  3. Run tool window

  4. Python Console tool window

  5. Database tool window

Some tool windows are always available (for example, Project and Python Console), some are activated when a specific plugin is enabled, and some appear only when you perform a certain action (for example, the Jupyter tool window appears when you run a notebook).

To focus your attention on the editor, you can hide all tool windows and then when necessary, quickly restore all windows that were open when you've hidden them.

You can use the following shortcuts to manage PyCharm's tool windows: