To do this, open command palette ( Ctrl + Shift + P) and search Toggle Activity Bar Visibility and select it. It’s just a matter of remembering these shortcuts and we can safely hide this Activity Bar as well. Below are all the shortcuts to access different sidepanel areas. But we have been given shortcuts to access all these panels even if we don’t have the Activity Bar enabled. This provides a UI to access Explorer, Search, Source Control, Run and Extension panel. Next, let’s get rid of the Activity Bar which sits in the far left. This will remove the status bar from the bottom. To remove it, open command palette ( Ctrl + Shift + P) and search Toggle Status Bar Visibility and select it. I personally don’t make use of the status bar and so, I removed it. Remove Menubar and Gutter (Line Numbers)įirst, let’s get rid of the status bar which lies in the bottom of the editor which shows the file language, current line and column numbers, and a few Git related things.Pretty clean, isn’t it? If you find this interesting, I’ll walk you through all the settings using which you can also make your VS Code look like this. And after applying those tweaks my editor now looks like below. And so, I tweaked some of the built-in default preferences of VS Code. Thankfully, VS Code is very customizable even when it comes to changing its overall layout. This looks pretty congested in my taste and in addition to this, I’m using a 15” laptop and because of that, I tend to get even less space. Below is the setup I was using previously… Clutters such as activity bar, status bar, sidebar consumes staggering screen space which otherwise would be useful for doing the main task that I’d be using it in the first place. While I as much as love the simplicity and extensibility of this editor, I tend to hate the chaos that the default layout of it brings. “I love VS Code… I freaking love this editor!”
Before proceeding on describing all the customizations I made, I have a confession to make.
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