Sometimes I change my java_home and the change isn...
# intellijc
Colton Idle
12/09/2020, 5:02 AMSometimes I change my java_home and the change isn't reflected in the Intellij terminal window... until I log out. Why is that? Is there any way to change it so that the new version takes into affect on launch?
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tateisu
12/09/2020, 5:34 AMenvironment variable is usually folk from parent process. The way to reload it is OS dependent.
tateisu
12/09/2020, 5:35 AMPerhaps IntelliJ doesn't provide automatic / manual reloading of environment variables
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Javier
12/09/2020, 3:09 PMclosing and opening the terminal should work too. But you can set the source in the same terminal and it should work, for example,
source ~/.zshrcc
Colton Idle
12/09/2020, 5:24 PMI inquired with intellij about it... apparently it could be due to jetbrains toolbox and restarting that instead. I will have to try it next time I have issues.
Colton Idle
12/10/2020, 11:11 PMLooks like this was related to jetbrains toolbox. I need to quit intellij and toolbox and then my new env vars were there.