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Having Multiple icons on the taskbar for most IDE


For most IDE, such as eclipse, Intellij, Processing, and other, it seems that even after pinning the program to the task bar, when I actually open it, it creates another program that is not pinned to the task bar. As a result, I have multiple icons on the taskbar. I'm guessing that the ones I pinned on the taskbars are kind of like launching applications and they open a separate application, not that I'm sure of this theory, but I'd prefer to have only one application showing up on the taskbar. So, is there a way to set it up so even after I start the program, another doesn't show up on the taskbar? Also, It seems like I can't pin the program that gets opened. Here's a picture of the taskbar. Or, since it seems like I can't post a picture yet, This is what's going on with my taskbar. http://i1320.photobucket.com/albums/u538/jerichoi224/Untitled_zps216034f9.png


Solution

  • This is because IDEs launch instances, which Windows doesn't support taskbar pinning for.

    The solution for Eclipse IDE is to add:

    -vm
    C:/path_to_jre/bin
    

    , to the beginning of the eclipse.ini file, in the eclipse directory, and relaunching the IDE.