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I have a situation wherein I have a Mac laptop and have to remotely connect to my office's Windows machine which has Intellij IDEA running on it. I want to use all my Mac + Intellij keyboard shortcuts on the Windows machine, how do I make this work?

Parag Kadam
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You can navigate to File -> Manage IDE Settings -> Export Settings on your Mac and send .zip file to Windows machine. On Windows machine you need to navigate to File -> Manage IDE Settings -> Import Settings and select .zip file.

How to save/export all the settings of IntelliJ IDEA?

Update:

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https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/sharing-your-ide-settings.html?keymap=secondary_macos#IDE_settings_sync

Syntax
~/Library/Application Support/JetBrains//keymaps Example

~/Library/Application Support/JetBrains/IntelliJIdea2021.2/keymaps

By default, this directory contains only the default keymaps. When you modify one of them, IntelliJ IDEA actually creates a child keymap file that contains only the differences relative to the parent keymap. For example, if you modified the default Windows keymap, your custom keymap will be its child. The file will contain only the shortcuts that you added or modified, while all other shortcuts of your custom keymap will be the same as the default Windows keymap.

You can share your custom keymaps with team members or between your IDE instances. Copy the corresponding keymap file and put it in the keymaps directory on another IntelliJ IDEA installation. Then select the copied keymap on the Keymap settings page.

vszholobov
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  • This does not work. The export did not create a `.jks` file but created a `settings.zip` file and on importing this file I did not see any changes with respect to the keyboard shortcuts. – Parag Kadam Aug 01 '21 at 13:53
  • I mixed up file extensions. `.jks` should not be created. Did you check `Key Maps` checkbox on export phase. – vszholobov Aug 01 '21 at 13:57
  • Everything in the list was already prechecked but I did not see `KeyMaps` checkbox in the list. – Parag Kadam Aug 01 '21 at 14:03
  • It's strange. Check this link https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/sharing-your-ide-settings.html?keymap=secondary_macos#IDE_settings_sync. There are a lot of ways to share settings. – vszholobov Aug 01 '21 at 14:09
  • This looks like a bug in Intellij IDEA - https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-181599?_ga=2.170722531.2102779982.1627805978-396804192.1624541157 – Parag Kadam Aug 01 '21 at 14:34
  • Doesn't work, no change after importing. – Jesse Barnum Jun 02 '23 at 23:22