Intellij IDEA and Maven, disable reading pom.xml on every small change, even without a save

Question

This is causing intellij to become slow and freeze up which is annoying as ****.

It appears as if it analyses other files similar to pom.xml causing freezes on other

Answer 1

In Windows Operating system, Press Ctrl + Alt + S, or File\Settings\ Project Settings section.
in section Maven:

* Uncheck: Import Maven project automatically.

* Section Generated sources folder:, Choose Don't Detect.



* Section Runner: Uncheck Run in background.

Answer 2

You can disable option in

Settings -> Maven -> Importing -> Import Maven projects automatically

(see intellij docs)

And then everytime you want to reimport the pom do it in Maven Projects tool window