Open devtools in seprate window?

#1

Is there any way I can open the devtools in a separate window?

[win.openDevTools()] List of options available
#2

Press this button at the top right of the dev tools: (And behold my awesome paint skills :stuck_out_tongue: )

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#3

Just in case you meant opening devtools in its own window via code:

window.openDevTools detach: true
#4

I wish to open devtools in its own window BY DEFAULT immediately when I invoke (ctrl + shift + I) after launching an atom. I assume, that it can be done by inserting your code (or not?) in a some config-file, but I don’t know where it can be found. It definitely isn’t in the config.cson or styles.less right?

#5

Do the dev tools attach themselves for you? For me, they always open as detached.

#6

Yeah, In my case it’s docked to the right by default((. After clicking on settings - Show in a separate window - devtools shows in a separate window, but unfortunately it don’t remember its state after a work session, so every time I have to click on settings in order to detach devtools. Not a big deal though, but pretty annoying. Since there is no way to jump from devtools area to main atom-editor by shortcut while devtools is attached, I prefer to keep it in a separate window because of easy alt-tab(or even better alt-esc) keyboard switch option between atom-editor and its devtools window

#7

That sounds like a bug, but one that might be difficult to replicate.

#8

this did the trick

#9

You can use the following. It worked for me when I was making a mobile emulator. My electron version: 1.7.9 and I am using Windows 10.

Suppose you have a window named win opened.

To open devtools in a separate window, you simply have to write the following code:

win.webContents.openDevTools({mode:'undocked'})
#10

Since the topic is here now:
I also had the issue a few weeks back and used the solution from the linked stackoverflow answer.

But one question remained on my todo-list:
How do I get the dev-tools to persist their settings (like the dock, theme or any of them) on closing Atom(Electron?)?