2.3.8 - Setting changed require restart - now no menu bar

Development Tools IDE 2.x
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I know I have seen something like this before, and will search for it in a bit.

But - it happened again on my Windows 11 machine.

Not sure what changed or how... I just started up the IDE, first time today...

Trying to remember what steps it takes to get things back:

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Steps to get back to a normal behavior

  1. Close all IDE instances.
  2. Start the IDE.
  3. Sometimes you have to close and start the IDE a few times before it comes right. My record is 3 times (if memory serves me well).
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Thanks,

It took 3...

Question still is, what caused this? Also I have had random times when all my settings were lost, like Serial monitor on the right...

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This bug has been reported to the Arduino IDE developers here:

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Thanks @ptillisch - I knew I saw something from before... Although
it has been a while...

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I've seen the serial monitor happen once. After checking the setting (under preferences) I discovered that the warning level was reset to default as well, something I never would have done.

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I too have seen several settings change at random. Should we be reporting them?

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Yes I have had this a couple of times as well, and like you would never have set it to the default!

Good question, it is probably all related to the one @ptillisch mentioned above.

At this point, I figure they are aware of some of these, but probably busy up to their eyeballs with other things.

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Is this because the shift to Ai assisted coding?
Now people have to do more to fix Ai screw-ups?

The last stable IDE was 1.8.19.
I still prefer it over V2.