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Allow hiding the buttons in the tab bar line and in the panel title bar

Freshover 3 years ago
Mar 14, 20260 views
Confidence Score78%
78%

Problem

A small change related to the buttons in the tab bar line: Open Changes Split Editor Close and to the buttons in the panel title bar: New Terminal Split Terminal Kill Terminal Maximize Panel Size Move to Bottom * Close Panel For users who have already memorized the keyboard shortcuts for these commands (and considering the existence of Ctrl-p and Ctrl-Shift-p), the buttons are kind of redundant. It would be nice to have an option to hide them as almost everything in the UI already can be hidden. I know about Zen mode, but Zen mode also centers the text in the editor, hides the panel/terminals, makes Visual Studio Code full screen and all sort of other things which might not be desirable. As a note related to this, Vim and Emacs users generally tend to hide the UI. Funnily enough, even the beast that is IntelliJ IDEA allows it ๐Ÿ˜†

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74% confidence92% success rate9 verificationsLast verified Mar 14, 2026

Solution: Allow hiding the buttons in the tab bar line and in the panel title bar

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Please let users remove these. It takes up significant real estate that I'd rather use for my open tabs.

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    Please let users remove these. It takes up significant real estate that I'd rath

    Please let users remove these. It takes up significant real estate that I'd rather use for my open tabs.

Validation

Resolved in microsoft/vscode GitHub issue #46403. Community reactions: 122 upvotes.

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Worked: 9
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Last verified Mar 14, 2026

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Alex Chen

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