Is there a way to disable the popup (“Meet the Islands Theme”) during startup? We want to start IntelliJ Instances automatically and the popup stops the automatic starting process. Thank you This refers to the popup mentioned here: How to disable the Islands theme popup?

# custom IntelliJ IDEA VM options (expand/override 'bin\idea64.exe.vmoptions') -Dide.experimental.ui.onboarding=false I have put it in .vmoptions, but I cannot test from home. So I will have to wait until Tuesday. We could put it into the Registry as well. How would the entry look like?

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Thank you, but our issue is different: We start Intellij automatically for student exams. While IntelliJ loads the workspace with the exam projects, the “Meet the Islands Theme” popup shows up and stops project initialization. The students have to skip / click the popup, so IntelliJ would finallize …

Can you try to set ide.experimental.ui.onboarding to false? ( source )

... ... Like this in ide.general.xml? Looks promising :slight_smile: We will try next week! Thank you!

This is a registry key. You can override it in idea.properties. I don’t know if it works with xml configs.

Put it to .vmoptions file as -Doption=value https://intellij-support.jetbrains.com/hc/en-us/articles/206544869-Configuring-JVM-options-and-platform-properties

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ulha (ulha) May 12, 2026, 1:41pm 9

It worked! Thank you!

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