First I have only really been using intellij a few weeks mostly on my desktop mac. I have intellij on two macs. On the desktop the sample program hello world prints “Hello World” in the output console window. On my laptop the program seems to run but the output console window never appears. I can make the output console window appear with view > tools > run. the window shows the message “Nothing to show” then I push the run button and the window disappears while the hello world program runs. when I force the window to appear again via view - I get the same nothing to show message.

I assume there is some setting that makes the output console window not to appear. but I can find nothing that shows where or how to change that setting.

On my laptop I had a version from last a year ago running with the problem, so I finally decided to re-install an intellij update the version this morning. I got the same problem. That makes me think there is some hidden file that was not removed when I uninstalled intellij and when I installed the new version grabbed that hidden settings file and so the same problem was there again.

Please tell me what to do. I would like to have intellij working on my laptop too.

First I have only really been using intellij a few weeks mostly on my desktop mac. I have intellij on two macs. On the desktop the sample program hello world prints “Hello World” in the output console window. On my laptop the program seems to run but the output console window never appears. I can make the output console window appear with view > tools > run. the window shows the message “Nothing to show” then I push the run button and the window disappears while the hello world program runs. when I force the window to appear again via view - I get the same nothing to show message.

I assume there is some setting that makes the output console window not to appear. but I can find nothing that shows where or how to change that setting.

On my laptop I had a version from last a year ago running with the problem, so I finally decided to re-install an intellij update the version this morning. I got the same problem. That makes me think there is some hidden file that was not removed when I uninstalled intellij and when I installed the new version grabbed that hidden settings file and so the same problem was there again.

Please tell me what to do. I would like to have intellij working on my laptop too.

• intellij-idea
• console

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This is very strange. I decided to create a new project on my desktop mac. Then I copied it to my laptop Idea folder. Then I opened and ran it. the program ran and the console opened and I saw the results. There was something wrong with the the original sample file created by intellij - so the it was working all along, but the file sample project was not