Windows: The Serial Monitor window needs to pop out please!

Development Tools IDE 2.x
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When I upload a sketch, the bottom window section automatically pops back to 'Output' and by the time I re-click the Serial Monitor window and clear the buffer, I've missed the beginning information. I know I can scroll, but it is not always clear where the new beginning is.

Thank you!

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Hi @director665. This is tracked by the Arduino IDE developers here:

Note the response by the then development team lead here:

it's definitely in our roadmap and at the top of the list.

We are giving maximum priorities to bugs that compromise the standard usage, next will come performance and UX improvements, like this issue with the monitor. We already designed the new one that is gonna be a separate window like the serial plotter.

There is also an issue about the specific problem you report here:

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

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Please note with the absence of a true ability to set a breakpoint the serial monitor is my primary debug tool in this IDE. Making its use cumbersome by not allowing it to be in a SEPARATE window is a day to day affecting loss in functionality. Long live version 1.8.6 until you do fix it!

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Hi @biznes. A couple of things to note:

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