I just wanna know that how to make VSCode hide sidebar and activity bar when in full-screen view (when I press f11) so I don't have to do it manually.
Unbind f11 from toggling fullscreen
Bind f11 to toggle Zen Mode https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/getstarted/tips-and-tricks#_zen-mode
Tweak Zen Mode settings so it would toggle fullscreen and hides stuff
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Before the update, I liked to disable show menu bar.
The menu disappeared and you just have to press Alt key to show it again.
But now Alt key doesn't work because there is a new hamburger menu button on the Activity Bar.
Is it possible to remove the hamburger menu icon?
Open File
Choose Preferences
Choose Settings
Search for window.menuBarVisibility
Set this according to your preference. toggle removes the new hamburger icon and only shows when you hit Alt.
when I am in Zen mode or full-screen mode and press the Alt key, the top of navigation toggling. Is there some chance to remove this behavior? Because I am using Alt key for jumping between words and the navigation toggling and it is really not comfortable. Thank you
I mean this top window navigation
I've entered fullscreen mode and now it seems impossible to exit it via the GUI.
How can I leave fullscreen mode again once entered?
You can toggle Fullscreen with Ctrl+Shift+F.
Ctrl+Shift+F
or edit ~/.gitkraken/config
Alt + F will display the menu again.
Then click on the "View" item and then click the "Toggle Full Screen" menu item.
You can change it in GitKraken settings. Change setting windowSettings/fullScreen to false in the file ~/.gitkraken/config
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.
It'd be handy if there was a keyboard shortcut for hiding and showing the sidebar. Sublime has cmd+k+b and it's a quick way of gaining some screen real estate when you need it. Anybody know if this exists or if the user can add it manually to VS Code?
The command can be triggered via Ctrl+B on Windows and Linux or Cmd+B on the Mac.
There are 3 bars on the side, 2 left and 1 right:
the activity bar with 5 buttons
the primary sidebar toggled by clicking any of the activity bar buttons.
the minimap
All of these hotkeys and more (e.g. the terminal & output panel, Ctrl+J) are now visible through the View (Alt-V) and View>Appearance menus:
The activity bar has no toggle hotkey by default, but you can assign one like this:
{
"key": "ctrl+alt+b",
"command": "workbench.action.toggleActivityBarVisibility"
},
Or hide completely with "workbench.activityBar.visible": false
The sidebar toggle hotkey is Ctrl+B by default, but may be overridden by e.g. vim plugin, here's how to enforce or change it:
{
"key": "ctrl+b",
"command": "workbench.action.toggleSidebarVisibility"
},
The minimap can be hidden with "editor.minimap.enabled": false and toggled with editor.action.toggleMinimap since vscode 1.16.
And with the Sidebar-activity toggler extension, so you toggle both activity and sidebar together with one key mapping to sidebar-activity-toggler.toggleSidebarAndActivityBar
To Hide the 5 button Activity Bar we can now:
View -> Hide Activity Bar
This is in vscode 1.9, not sure which version it was introduced in.
As Benjamin Pasero's answer states you can use:
Ctrl+B on Windows and Linux
⌘ Cmd+B on the Mac.
but sometimes you have another keyboard shortcut with ⌘ Cmd+B, in my case I had it to format some React code. To reverse that you can use the following:
Code > Preferences > Keyboard Shortcuts (⌘+K ⌘+S) then search for B and disable the other shortcut command.
You can also change the it and put which ever shortcut you want, just search for Toggle Side Bar Visibility like this:
Just in case you be intended for hiding the right lateral "sidebar", also called minimap, there is no shortcut. But you can configure the settings with:
{"editor.minimap.enabled: false"}
One can also hide the activity bar with the following setting in settings.json:
"workbench.activityBar.visible": false
To hide/show the side bar:
Ctrl+B on Linux and Windows.
⌘ Cmd+B on Mac.
No need to edit Settings.json directly
Do the following:
Open the Keyboard Shortcuts by pressing ctrl+k & ctrl+s
Search: "Toggle Activity Bar Visibility"
Enter the keyboard shortcut
Done!
Activity bar visibility in visual studio code
Mac users,
⌘ + B or
⌘ + 0 - Worked Perfectly
In the VS code version 1.43, you can hide or show the side menu or activity bar by going under the 'VIEW' tab in the nav bar in the top margin of VS CODE(called the 'Menu Bar'). Go to View => Appearance, there you can check or uncheck different nav bars to show/hide each one.
If you have the top bar (Menu Bar) currently hidden press 'alt' key to bring it back then follow above instructions to check it to keep it there permanently if desired.