

Open your idea.properties file (located in /bin) and add this line at the bottom windows. This is a simplified version of this walk-through: /forum/topic/985014-guide-pin-programs-with-custom-launchers-to-taskbar/ When you open a program pinned to the taskbar it should highlight that by modifying the icon, not spawning another icon on the same taskbar. One issue that you may experience from time to time is that of duplicate icons on the taskbar. If you now start IntelliJ from anywhere, it should group properly with the pinned icon.ītw. The same taskbar is also part of windows 8 and Windows 10. Check out this walk-through and follow all the steps replacing the target with the file path of idea.exe or idea64.exe and the appid with the one above. The next thing you need is mkshortcut.exe which will create a custom shortcut for you. The current EAP version has the AppID: "IntelliJ IDEA (Minerva).-1274214200"īut be sure to check, if it doesn't work (release versions of IntelliJ have different IDs) The string next to the arrow is the AppID. Open the program and go to Taskbar Inspector. To do this, you can use Taskbar Tweaker (you can uninstall it afterwards).

This is not actually a fix, more of a hack to make this work since it annoyed the hell out of me.įirst of all, you need to find out what the AppID of the app (here IntelliJ) is.
