After further investigation I noticed Clicking on "Display information concerning current system" Does the following 1) when no application is executing - display the system information in the output/General panel - focus the output/General panel 2) when an application is being executing inside EiffelStudio - display the system information in the output/General panel - focus the output/General panel - display the execution information in the output/Debugger panel - focus the output/Debugger panel Then, to the user, it seems only the execution information are being displayed ... but if you select the output/General panel, you'll get the "system information" So now, what could we do? A) Add a new "execution information" button/menu, and separate the 2 functionalities System/Execution B) keep current behavior C) Display the system information for 5 secondes, and then focus on the "Debugger"'s output? D) ... allow to have multiple "Output" tool panels, and being able to keep selected a particular output (which could be appreciable for time to time) For now, I would go for A) and think about D) since it would also been quite nice to have multiple edition of the "Feature tool" for instance ... But I am not this would be that easy to achieve for now. (note: we should also rename the "Debugger" output, into "Execution" output)