I'd like to be able to reorder icons in the VSCode activity bar… I know that we can hide/show some icons (How to modify VSCode Activity Bar) but is it possible to reorder them?
I've installed the "Project Manager" extension and I'd like to have it at the top of my activity bar.
You can reorder them by drag and drop on Activity Bar
Source: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/getstarted/userinterface#_activity-bar
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Is it posible to hide these icons?
I especially need to hide icons for actions "Synchronize changes", "Commit" and "Refresh".
I tried to use configuration by https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/getstarted/settings (section "git." or "scm.") but nothing help.
In general, after a recent vscode update, you can right-click on most icons in the UI, including a related ... and select the Hide [commit, refresh, etc.] option to hide it.
Right-clicking on any remaining icon in the same area should give you the option to re-enable those related icons you hid.
The command View: Reset All Menus should bring back all icons across the UI you may have hidden in case you hide them all from the same view!
When I was working I don't know where I clicked, but then the Extensions and Files sidebar disappeared.
Go to View -> Appeareance and then reenable the Activity Bar by setting a checkmark there.
View > Appearance > Show Activity Bar.
Another way is by clicking on Customize Layout right next to the Minimize Button, and then click on Activity Bar to make it visible
Is it possible to hide explorer action icons? (Other way than using custom-css extension).
Yes, coming to vscode v1.72 will be the ability to hide any of those icons. Deminstrating in the Insiders Build v1.72:
Hide actions from tool bars
You can now hide actions from tool bars. Simply right-click on any
action in a tool bar and select its hide-command or any of the toggle
commands. Hidden actions will be moved to the ... menu and can be
invoked from there. To restore a menu select the "Reset Menu" command,
to store all menus select "F1 > Reset All Menus".
from v1.72 Release Notes: hide actions
Earlier this week I installed the latest release (May 2018) of Visual Studio Code and ever since then all the icons in the Activity Bar (i.e. the long thin bar on the far left of the window) fail to display. I always get the Explorer icon but after that the only one that does display is whatever I currently have open in the sidebar.
Perhaps some screenshots might help explain:
I've searched high and low in Settings to try and find how to get them all to display but I can't find anything. Can anyone help?
I'm on macOS High Sierra 10.13.5 by the way.
Right click on the activity bar itself and select whatever you want have on the activity side bar. if for some reason you don't see the activity bar, go to
View-> Appearance ->Show Activity bar
"Try right clicking the Activity Bar itself. If I right click it I get a list of the icons to show/hide."
In VSCode version 1.59 (Windows 10), the setting of controlling the visibility of activity bar is:
Settings -> User >-> Workbench -> Appearance -> Activity Bar -> "Visible
Controls the visibility of the activity bar in the workbench"
See the screenshot below:
Click on menu, if you don't have the top menu click the alt key the menu will appear. On the menu click view then click appearance, then click show activity bar. If all the activity bar does not show, go back to view menu to bring them back one by one. To keep an icon from disappearing right click on each activity bar, look for keep, click it. That will make it stay.
If you are a windows user and have the latest version of visual studio code
1)First go to the view section in the upper top of the visual studio code.
2)GO to preferences
3)Go to show Activity Bar and click on it.
This is the only fix that worked for me on Mac:
Click "View" > "Open view...". Search for the extension. From there you can open the extension in a side panel.
I'm customizing VSCode and I need to modify Activity Bar, removing some icon and add one more icon to open extension which is now triggered by keyboard shortcut.
Does anybody have idea how to modify VSCode source code to accomplish that?
Is there any document helping me understand the source code of VSCode?
Any clue will be highly appreciated!
You can right click on the activity bar and select which activity you wish to have in the activity bar.