Serialmonitor + 74880 baud rate in IDE 2.0.1

Development Tools IDE 1.x
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Just upgraded to 2.0.1
How do you put the serialmonitor into 74880 baud rate (needed to see ESP8266 boot data).
How do you open a separate serial window (only serialplotter seems to be able to do that).
Do I have to give up coding space for a permanently attached serial monitor?
That's two issues I ran into within five minutes. There might be more.
Might as well go back to an older version.
Leo..

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Hi @Wawa

Unfortunately at this time there is no way to do this. The deficiency is being tracked by the Arduino IDE developers here:

There is no option for a dedicated Serial Monitor window as in Arduino IDE 1.x. The workaround would be to use File > New to open another Arduino IDE window and use that window solely for Serial Monitor, with the other window used for sketch development.

The Arduino IDE developers are tracking the need to change Serial Monitor to being a separate window like Serial Plotter here:

As explained, you do have the option to use a separate Arduino IDE window for that. Something I should point out, since some find it to be non-obvious, is that you can click the icon at the bottom right corner of the Arduino IDE window ("Toggle Bottom Panel") to hide the bottom panel. So it doesn't need to take up coding space always.

Please do let us know if you find any problems or have any feedback.

I'm sorry if Arduino IDE 2.x did not meet your requirements. If you look at the changelog for 2.0.1, you will see the project is still under very active development:

So we can hope that in time the deficiencies impactful to you will be resolved.

If you have a GitHub account, you can subscribe to the issues of interest to get notifications of any new developments related to this subject.

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You're saying: Keep using 2.0.1 untill the problems are fixed?
Because if I don't use it, how will I see if the problems are fixed.
Sorry, can't do that.
An integrated serial moitor peephole might be ok for someone on a laptop or tablet,
but it seems totally unworkable after you have been using 1.8.19 on a widescreen monitor.
Both issues I mentioned are known for about two years now.
I don't see that they will be resolved soon.
Back to 1.8.19. Much better. Will try again in another two years or so.
Leo..

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Didn't tell you what to do either way. Do as you like.

As I already said, subscribe to the GitHub issues. They will be closed when the developers have resolved the issue.

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