IntelliJ Find Action on Mac opens terminal app by error

Question

When I press Cmd + Shift + A in IntelliJ it should open the "Find Action..." dialog. Instead it opens Terminal.app with the apropos command.

How can I resolve this problem?

score 85 · Accepted Answer · edited Apr 26 '19 at 07:38

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Seems in MacOs 10.14.4 a new default shortcut was enabled - Services -> Search man Page Index in Terminal. It uses the same shortcut as Find Action - Cmd+Shift+A. As a result using Find Action in the IDE could sometimes open terminal window with apropos <smth> command output.

edited Apr 26 '19 at 07:38

Louis CAD

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answered Apr 18 '19 at 13:57

Petr Rastegaev

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Thanks for this fix. It was really annoying! – MiguelPuyol May 03 '19 at 10:28
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This seems like a bug in IntelliJ though because `Cmd + Shift + A` does not cause this from any other application – Ruan Mendes May 24 '19 at 14:43
flawless answer! – Gaurav Dec 08 '20 at 13:12
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For Mac OS 13.X, the option is under 'TEXT' Heading under the same services tab – Sairam Cherupally Jan 21 '23 at 18:35

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 22 '21 at 08:34

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Explicit Location: System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts > Services (on left hand side) > (uncheck) Search man Page Index in Terminal

answered Sep 22 '21 at 08:34

arush436

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jan 24 '22 at 16:25

Here’s a script (hosted in gist) that will do this via the command line, which might be useful for an organisation that wants to roll out this change for a number of users.

TEMP_SETTINGS_FILE=$(mktemp -t 'man-shortcuts-off.json')
cat > $TEMP_SETTINGS_FILE <<EOF
{
  "NSServicesStatus": {
    "com.apple.Terminal - Open man Page in Terminal - openManPage": {
      "presentation_modes": {
        "ContextMenu": false,
        "ServicesMenu": false
      },
      "enabled_context_menu": false,
      "enabled_services_menu": false
    },
    "com.apple.Terminal - Search man Page Index in Terminal - searchManPages": {
      "presentation_modes": {
        "ContextMenu": false,
        "ServicesMenu": false
      },
      "enabled_context_menu": false,
      "enabled_services_menu": false
    }
  }
}
EOF
# Settings are stored in the pbs domain. Other settings in this domain will not be overwritten. I’ve included the settings to change in JSON for brevity. They are converted to XML (which `defaults import` expects) before being imported.
plutil -convert xml1 -o - ${TEMP_SETTINGS_FILE} | defaults import pbs -
rm ${TEMP_SETTINGS_FILE}

Amit Kumar · Answer 4 · 2023-06-08T11:53:17.500

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Intellij File search problem. Issue observed when searching file inMAC

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edited Jun 08 '23 at 11:53

answered Jun 08 '23 at 11:52

Amit Kumar

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you could make the image to be viewed inplace by `[![enter image description here][1]][1]`. – I.Omar Jun 09 '23 at 22:44

IntelliJ Find Action on Mac opens terminal app by error

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