Disabling plugins during dev deployments? e.g. codeWithMe

IntelliJ Platform
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During development, I am deploying using gradle v2 plugin. I see lots of warnings in the log from various plugins. The most verbose one is com.jetbrains.codeWithMe. For example

2025-06-06 08:04:14,017 [   2873]   WARN - #c.i.s.ComponentManagerImpl - `preload=TRUE` must be used only for core services (service=com.intellij.cwm.plugin.users.BackendUserManager, plugin=com.jetbrains.codeWithMe)
2025-06-06 08:04:14,017 [   2873]   WARN - #c.i.s.ComponentManagerImpl - `preload=TRUE` must be used only for core services (service=com.intellij.cwm.plugin.ports.CwmPortForwardingToolWindowManager, plugin=com.jetbrains.codeWithMe)
2025-06-06 08:04:14,017 [   2873]   WARN - #c.i.s.ComponentManagerImpl - `preload=TRUE` must be used only for core services (service=com.intellij.cwm.plugin.following.FollowMeManagerService, plugin=com.jetbrains.codeWithMe)
2025-06-06 08:04:14,017 [   2873]   WARN - #c.i.s.ComponentManagerImpl - `preload=NOT_HEADLESS` must be used only for core services (service=com.jetbrains.rdserver.toolWindow.BackendServerToolWindowManager, plugin=com.jetbrains.codeWithMe)

i don’t see any option to disable them in the build.gradle.kts. How to disable plugins for during dev deployment?

Thanks

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You can populate the disabled_plugins.txt file when setting up the sandbox:

        prepareSandboxTask {
            doLast {
                val sandboxPathsFile = sandboxConfigDirectory.file("disabled_plugins.txt").get().asFile

                sandboxPathsFile.writeText( // <- a list of plugin IDs
                    """
                    hg4idea
                    training
                    training.git
                    W3Validators
                    """.trimIndent()
                )
            }
        }

This is based on Recipes | IntelliJ Platform Plugin SDK, but I added doLast, otherwise the file would be deleted before runIde.

3

Thanks!.

I don’t suppose you know how to set <option name="SHOW_MAIN_MENU_MODE" value="SEPARATE_TOOLBAR" /> as well. i tried variations of "-Dide.show.main.menu.mode=SEPARATE_TOOLBAR" but it not being set.

any other good settings to make dev workflow easier?

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I think you can alter most files in the config dir.
In this example: Recipes | IntelliJ Platform Plugin SDK, they create the file that defines the trusted folders/projects.
You only have to find the file that should contain <option name="SHOW_MAIN_MENU_MODE" value="SEPARATE_TOOLBAR" />, patch it, and it should work.