Translations:KDevelop5/Manual/Debugging programs/5/en
Running a program in the debugger will put KDevelop in a different mode: it will replace all the "Tool" buttons on the perimeter of the main window by ones that are appropriate for debugging, rather than for editing. You can see which of the modes you are in by looking at the top right of the window: there is a button named Tools and views.
in editing mode, and a button named in debugging mode; clicking on them allows you to switch back and forth between the two modes; each mode has a set of tool views of its own, which you can configure in the same way as we configured the tools in the section