Having to select serial monitor twice is driving me crazy!

Development Tools IDE 2.x
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Hi. This is my first post so please forgive any daft questions I ask.
I'm using the Arduino 2.0.4 on a Mac running Ventura.
I have to select "serial monitor" twice before it opens. That's every time I use it.
Is anyone else having this problem and if so any suggestions?
Thanks

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Have you tried the Mac equivalent of PC CTRL-SHFT-M? (you should find the Mac equivalent under IDE >> TOOLS >> Serial Monitor (and next to it is the hotkey)

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Thanks you :slight_smile: That's saved me from pulling out the little hair I have left

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Not being able to pop out the serial monitor makes it unusable for me. Too frustrating.

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Until the Serial Monitor is made a separate window, which is on the development list, just open a second copy of the IDE with the same COM port selected and use that as your Serial monitor

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You then have to toggle which one is active which is still frustrating. 1.18.X is much more user friendly still IMO.

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No toggling needed. Just leave the Serial monitor open in the second instance of the IDE and you will see the output even if the first instance currently has the focus

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Hi @oldlarko

Where exactly in the Arduino IDE interface are you selecting it?

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Tools -> Serial Monitor
I have to always do this twice for the seial monitor to open.

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Is there a reason why you don't use the Serial Monitor icon, top/right of the screen ?

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Because I'm dumb.:slight_smile: That works as it says on the tin.
I used the old IDE previously and was used to accessing via the menu.

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Even the old IDE has an icon for the Serial Monitor top/right of the screen. There was never a need to use the menu and you can open it in both using the Ctrl+Shift+M keyboard shortcut

Having said that, I am glad that you are sorted

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It sounds like the problem is that the Serial Monitor is already open, but is not selected in the bottom panel of the Arduino IDE window. The bottom panel is a container for "views". When multiple views are open, a view can be made visible by clicking its tab on the bottom panel (similar to tabs in your web browser).

For example, I have two views open in the bottom panel:

  • Output
  • Serial Monitor

The Output view is currently selected, so if I want to switch to the "Serial Monitor" view, I just click on its tab:

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Thanks :slightly_smiling_face:

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