I don't know what I have done but I cannot see the "Open Editors" panel in the Explorer view
I note also that clicking on the three dots (Views and More Actions...) to the right of the word Explorer at the top of the explorer panel the word Folders is greyed out
Can anyone point me to the setting I need to change in order to rectify this situation?
Just in case anyone else has the same problem here is how I resolved my issue. I won't bore you with how I discovered the solution.
Right-click in the activity bar, this will bring up a context menu with the entry for Open Editors listed but not marked with a tick
Activity bar context menu.
Clicking on "Open Editors" in this context menu brings up a new icon in the activity bar that looks like an open book
Open Editor icon
Right-clicking on this new icon reveals another context menu that includes the option to reset the location of the Open Editors panel.
Open Editor context menu
Selecting this option resolves the problem.
How I got into the problem in the first place is still difficult to ascertain. With the activity bar in its default configuration I must have dragged the "Open Editors" header to somewhere on the activity bar, that clearly removes it from the Explorer side bar but how I inadvertently right clicked this new icon and selected "Hide 'Open Editors'" without realising remains a mystery.
Go to view and click on Open View and the on Open Editors.
3 dots on extreme right hand side has an option - keep editors open --> set it to default view. Once done the open editor will be be visible on the left.
This is considering you have default vs code layout...
I am currently using version: 1.68.1
In VS Code, go to Settings and in the search box, type explorer.openEditors.visible. Set the value in the dialogue box to any number greater than 0 and you are good to go. Refer to the image below.
I'm working in VS Code and (I think I used a wrong shortcut) the following feature appeared: When having a file opened in a tab, there appears a bar below the header of the tab and above the first line of the file. When clicking on it, a dropdown menu opens up, where one can select the other files of the current folder (see picture below). When clicking on one of them, this file is opened in a new tab.
How can i remove this menu? I already searched through my user and workspace settings, but didn't find an appropriate option.
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Thanks for your answers
You have enabled VSCode's breadcrumb feature. To disable it:
Press Ctrl+Shift+P to open the command pallete.
Type "Toggle Breadcrumbs" and press enter.
Alternatively, you can disable the breadcrumbs from the settings menu:
I accidentally removed search icon in Activity Bar and don't know how to add it there again. If I click on Activity Bar, I don't see this option any more.
Update: v1.44 you can now simply drag many of the views, including "Search" from the sidebar to the panel and back. See https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_44#_increased-view-placement-flexibility and https://stackoverflow.com/a/55981465/836330
Update: v1.42 added a context menu option
Move to Panel/Move to Sidebar
to certain typically sidebar views like Search, Outline and custom views. So you wouldn't have to use a setting to move the Search view back to the sidebar. Here is a demo:
Also notice that you no longer right-click in the empty space below the search inputs in the sidebar but on/near the Search header itself to bring up the toggle option.
As part of the v1.42 release the search.location setting mentioned below will be deprecated.
Your setting should migrate automatically, but you will need to use
the new generalized method to move the Search view going forward. You
do not need to enable the experimental preview setting above in order
to move the Search view with the new context menu entry.
So I don't think there is a setting anymore, you just right-click on the header text "Search" whether it is in the Panel or active in the Sidebar to move it. See the demo below.
Right-click on the "Search" header if you have it in the sidebar to "Move to Panel".
If Search is in the panel, right-click on the word Search to "Move to Sidebar".
To enable moving the Output view at this point, you need to enable workbench.view.experimental.allowMovingToNewContainer.
There is a new unbound command workbench.view.search.moveView which you can use to toggle the search position between the panel and sidebar. But note that in my testing it only works a couple of times because it focuses the panel when you move search to the sidebar - I'll file a bug.
Previous Answer::
You may have modified the setting:
"search.location": "sidebar",
which is the default to the alternative
"search.location": "panel",
which would put the search widget into the terminal panel as another tab.
As of vscode v1.35 or so, you can now right-click in the empty space below the search view (i.e., in the sidebar under the open search inputs) and you will get an option to Toggle Search View Position.
This context menu switch of the search view is persistent. It will automatically add this setting to your settings.json:
"search.location": "panel",
The only way at present (but see edit just below) to move the icon back to the activity bar (and thus the search across files functionality to the sidebar) is to change that setting to the sidebar option. Or look for this setting in the settings editor:
Search: Location
Controls whether the search will be shown as a view
in the sidebar or as a panel in the panel area for more horizontal
space.
EDIT: More recently, vscode added the abilty to right-click in the search area when it is in the panel to toggle it back to the sidebar.
In windows
file--> preferences-->settings
In mac
preferences -> settings
vs-code version 1.30.2
Step 1: Click on Edit from Navbar
Step 2: Find in Files
.
.
You can easily search for anything in the side paanel
or else if you want anything to search inside files then
Step 1: Click "Ctrl+F"
I'm trying to get rid of the default text that appears on the install4j finish screen. I've edited the finish components and added a multi line label to display the text I want however it just displays that below the default text. Is there a way to get rid of the default text completely?
There are two options:
1) Delete the "Finish" screen, add a "Configurable banner form" screen instead and select its "Quit after screen" property.
or
2) On the General Settings->Languages step, set up a custom localization file, then open the built-in editor and click on the "Override messages" tool bar button. Search for the message you want to change and click on OK. Then you can change the text in the editor. In this case the keys that you need to override are "FinishedLabel" and "FinishedLabelUnix".
I disabled the menu bar in preferences and it disappeared as expected. Now there's no way to get to the preferences menu again. How do I get it back?
For Windows users:
For older versions (<1.54) of Visual Studio Code: Press Alt to make the menu visible temporarily. While the menu is visible go to the View menu and choose Appearance -> Show Menu Bar.
For newer versions see the following steps or if Alt does not work use Crtl + Shift + P for command pallete, type 'menu' and select View: Toggle Menu Bar
Alternativily open settings Ctrl+,, search for and change Window: Menu Bar Visibility to either classic or visible.
For macOS users:
If you are in Full-Screen mode you can either move the cursor to the top of the screen to see the menu, or you can exit Full-Screen using Ctrl+Cmd+F, or ⌃⌘F in alien's script.
If you are like me - you did this by inadvertently hitting F11 - toggling fullscreen mode.
https://code.visualstudio.com/shortcuts/keyboard-shortcuts-windows.pdf
Another way to restore the menu bar is to trigger the View: Toggle Menu Bar command in the command palette (F1).
It's also possible that you have accidentally put the IDE into Full Screen Mode. On occasion, you may be inadertently pressing F11 to set FullScreen mode to On.
If this is the case, the Accepted Answer above will not work. Instead, you must disable Full Screen mode (View > Appearance > Full Screen).
Please see the attached screenshot.
To restore menu bar visibility so that you don't press key Alt to make the menu bar visible and the menu bar remains visible all the time, see the setting below.
You inadvertently changed the value from "default" to "toggle", so restore the setting to "default" as shown below.
"window.menuBarVisibility": "default"
In version 1.36.1 I tried to follow the steps mentioned in the previous answers and noticed that the Toggle Menu Bar has moved to a different location and has been renamed to Show Menu Bar. Follow these steps:
Press Alt to make menu visible
Click on the View menu, navigate to the Appearance option and choose Show Menu Bar
Click on the 'Manage' button.
Select 'Settings'.
In the search bar type: 'menu bar visibility'.
In the drop-down select 'classic' or 'visible'.
Press Ctrl + Shift + P to open the Command Palette, then
write command : Toggle Menu Bar
From Version: 1.56.2 on in OSX you need to update in settings.json file
"workbench.editor.showTabs": true
instead of
"window.menuBarVisibility": "default"
Press Ctrl + Shift + P to open the Command Palette.
After that, you write menu
Option is enabled
You have two options.
Option 1
Make the menu bar temporarily visible.
press Alt key and you will be able to see the menu bar
Option 2
Make the menu bar permanently visible.
Steps:
Press F1
Type user settings
Press Enter
Click on the { } (top right corner of the window) to open settings.json file see the screenshot
Then in the settings.json file, change the value to the default "window.menuBarVisibility": "default" you can see a sample here (or remove this line from JSON file. If you remove any value from the settings.json file then it will use the default settings for those entries. So if you want to make everything to default settings then remove all entries in the settings.json file).
Some changes to this coming in v1.54, see https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-docs/blob/vnext/release-notes/v1_54.md#updated-application-menu-settings
Updated Application Menu Settings
The window.menuBarVisibility setting for the application menu
visibility has been updated to better reflect the options. Two primary
changes have been made.
First, the default option for the setting has been renamed to
classic.
Second, the Show Menu Bar entry in the the application menu bar now
toggles between the classic and compact options. To hide it
completely, you can update the setting, or use the context menu of the
Activity Bar when in compact mode.
Press Ctrl+Shift+P, type menu, select View: Toggle Menu Bar and the menu bar should be back. If not add a comment
Here is a simple solution to bring back the activity bar.
Just click on the view tab on top of vs code > appearance > then check activity bar then from there it has to appear
All these answers were wrong for me. Press ALT.