How do you undo floating mode for the logcat window in Android Studio

Question

While fiddling with the layout in Android Studio I somehow turned my logcat window into a floating window. I cannot for the life of me restore it to docked mode.

Answer 1

The simplest way is to press Shift + F12. It will restore your view to the Android Studio default view. Or go to Window -> Reset to default.

Answer 2

After reading the top rated answers above it still couldn't resolve the issue. Turns out is was a project specific setting. I fixed it by modifying my project's workspace.xml file located in my project's .idea folder. In that file look for the element

<component name="ToolWindowManager">

Under that will be the node:

<window_info id="Logcat" 

change the type of that node from FLOATING to DOCKED

Answer 3

Right click on Android Monitor tab, select pinned mode and docked mode. Unselect other modes. My runner.layout.xml file was showing window value 0, so i tried this method it solved my problem.

Answer 4

I just realised that the settings controlling the window layout are not stored in the project because the layout was broken for all projects. I was able to fix the problem by doing this:

$ cd ~/.AndroidStudio/config
$ grep -r ddms
$ vi options/runner.layout.xml

Then I modified the Logcat configuration to look like this:

  <ViewImpl>
    <option name="ID" value="Android Logcat" />
    <option name="minimizedInGrid" value="false" />
    <option name="placeInGrid" value="right" />
    <option name="tabIndex" value="0" />
    <option name="window" value="0" />
  </ViewImpl>

The important change was the window option.

Answer 5

select window Select Default layout or press Shift + F12

It fixes the logcat window at the bottom.

Answer 6

Click on the Settings icon on the top right of the Terminal Window, from the drop-down select Split Mode, Pinned Mode, Dock Mode. This will pin it to the bottom window. Unselect Split Mode if you want it grouped with the other bottom windows.