Similar to behavior in Visual Studio, is there a way we could get the terminal to show/hide automatically? Leaving some sort of tab at the bottom of the screen?
It opens when:
- User mouses over the tab
- Something is written to the terminal
It hides when:
- User clicks outside of the open terminal window.
- The terminal has not been written to within a set period of ~10 seconds.
Ex: I'm working on an Angular 2 application using the angular-cli build tool. When I'm writing code or clicking through the UI I don't particularly care about what's displaying in the terminal. But as soon as I save my changes and the build process starts, I DO want to quickly see what the current state of the build is. So after saving a file, when the CLI tool starts writing to the terminal, it would pop-up from the bottom, and as long as my mouse isn't hovering over it, it will hide again after several seconds of inactivity.
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Tyriar
on 25 Aug 2016
Hi @Tyriar - I saw that you closed several duplicate issues related to this. Is there an ETA for adding this functionality?
Thanks.
joelpresence
on 15 Aug 2017
No ETA, https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/2806 will probably get looked at before this one.
Tyriar
on 18 Aug 2017
+1
It would be also nice to have an option to show terminal _only_ when underlying shell exited with code other than 0 (zero) OR something was printed to stderr. E.g. i'm starting CMake build in shell, but i don't want to see terminal until it requires my attention: for example, a compilation error occurred, warning was printed (normally to stderr) or shell failed to execute build in some other way.
alekseyt
on 19 Oct 2017
+1
iammruni
on 16 Mar 2018
I would also want this feature. +1
lempax
on 3 Apr 2018
+1
radutomy
on 5 Apr 2018
+1
dimaaleks
on 12 Apr 2018
+1 I was just working with Angular and...well.. this happened.
Nyalothas
on 13 Apr 2018
+1
KeyC0de
on 13 Apr 2018
+1
vinod85
on 23 Apr 2018
+1 - Is this still pending since 2016 or am I missing a fix?
GroomedGorilla
on 1 May 2018
+1
Odame
on 3 May 2018
Considering writing a plugin for this. My biggest problem with the VSC interface in general is the lack of feedback on actions. Make a Git pull, start a Vagrant box, etc, and if you don't have the Terminal already open and ready (and manually switch to the new Terminal tab every tool run generates), you get absolutely zero feedback. It's quite frustrating to have to go looking for the outcome of actions taken.
GregJPreece
on 10 May 2018
@GregJPreece any luck?
Trass3r
on 1 Jun 2018
+1 Please add this feature :)
dreamsComeTrue
on 10 Jun 2018
+1
dberthia
on 22 Jun 2018
FYI while waiting for this add-on, the shortcut ctrl + ` should open/close the terminal
GroomedGorilla
on 29 Jun 2018
+1
EwanDubashinski
on 4 Jul 2018
close does not suit when you've opened VSC from a parent directory as every time you should:
$ cd target
+1
uniapi
on 4 Jul 2018
NetBeans has this pretty much locked down.
When the panel is minimized, you click it, view the contents and after clicking anywhere out of it, it auto closes.
If you want it open you click on sticky (keep open) button, until you click x (minimize it).
akalineskou
on 13 Jul 2018
+1
vinayakhumberi
on 1 Aug 2018
+1
qseeker
on 3 Aug 2018
+1
Karlheinzniebuhr
on 9 Aug 2018
+1
TryCatch9264
on 10 Aug 2018
To all the +1 people, please stop. You're wasting time for everyone who's actually interested in this being added to VSCode or looking for work-arounds to help in the mean time. Unfortunately, I feel we need to lock this thread to prevent any more +1, even though there may be some useful solutions posted here in the future.
And yes this message just added to the noise, but hopefully it will stop this run of +1 comments. If you want to support this request, please add a thumb's up to the first message and move on. Thank you!
onetrev
on 10 Aug 2018
want. dont even need that if you have 0 errors in your code and you're using a hardware monitor. with this 'logical' setup that panel is simply in the way and taking up real estate of the screen. having to ctrl+`` to remove what isnt even needed is obnoxious. i could be looking at code rather than this stupid panel :P everytime im uploading firmware ctrl+alt+u it pops back up.. i understand why that is helpful but there is also a need to not see this.. e.g. hardware monitor, people with hardware monitors.
0xd3d0c3d
on 5 Apr 2019
I am waitting for the feature.
serend1p1ty
on 13 Jul 2019
Doesn't the ⌃ + (or equivalent on Windows, likely ctrl +) shortcut solve this issue?
As fleshed out here https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/editor/integrated-terminal
GroomedGorilla
on 15 Jul 2019
@GroomedGorilla
AUTO hide the panel. No shortcut is needed.
serend1p1ty
on 2 Aug 2019
I think IntelliJ's "unpinned dock" behavior should be looked into. Their implementation is annoying because it doesn't seem to remember your preference and you seem to be disabling it all the time... but it's more or less what vscode needs. Just make the setting stick.
rpgdev
on 24 Aug 2019
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=venryx.vscode-vtools does a pretty good job working around the lack of this in the core product IMO. Has the occasional bug, but works well enough on a day-to-day basis.
kieranbenton
on 24 Oct 2019
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=venryx.vscode-vtools does a pretty good job working around the lack of this in the core product IMO. Has the occasional bug, but works well enough on a day-to-day basis.
Works well. However, once the bottom bar/terminal is hidden, is there a shortcut to open that same terminal again without having to do to Terminal -> New Terminal?
I have a terminal open, click outside of it, it is hidden, now once I want to go back into that same terminal, what do I do without having to open a new terminal session?
Thank you.
robots4life
on 8 Dec 2019
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=venryx.vscode-vtools does a pretty good job working around the lack of this in the core product IMO. Has the occasional bug, but works well enough on a day-to-day basis.
Works well. However, once the bottom bar/terminal is hidden, is there a shortcut to open that same terminal again without having to do to Terminal -> New Terminal?
I have a terminal open, click outside of it, it is hidden, now once I want to go back into that same terminal, what do I do without having to open a new terminal session?
Thank you.
ctrl + shift + ^ to open the same terminal again.
robots4life
on 8 Dec 2019
ctrl + shift + ^to open the same terminal again.
You can just do ctrl+`
rpgdev
on 8 Dec 2019
ctrl + shift + ^to open the same terminal again.You can just do ctrl+`
Afaik not on Linux, there the combo is ctrl + shift + ^ per default VS Code settings. But yes, could surly adjust those with keybindings.
robots4life
on 12 Dec 2019
Afaik not on Linux, there the combo is
ctrl + shift + ^per default VS Code settings. But yes, could surly adjust those with keybindings.
You must be right. I'm on linux myself so I probably changed that hotkey. My bad.
rpgdev
on 13 Dec 2019
vscode-vtools doesn't seem to solve this for me; if I run a build command which opens the terminal, executes a single command, and then stops, continuing to type in my existing code panel doesn't close the terminal. Since the terminal never had focus, it doesn't count as losing focus? I have to click inside the terminal, then click back into the code to make the panel disappear, which is almost worse than having to press ctrl+` twice to put focus into the terminal, then close it.
I want to run a build command either without showing the output, or showing and then hiding the panel afterward without having to press anything extra. I just don't need to see the build output most of the time for my purposes, and I have a small laptop screen where every inch of vertical space is important.
UPDATE: I re-read the docs and learned there's a task option to never show the terminal in the first place. This is what I wanted! Docs here. Add this inside the task.json:
"command": "your command here",
"presentation": {
"reveal": "never"
}
Splendorr
on 5 Feb 2020
+1
lebtron
on 18 May 2020
I'm just wondering why this is still open. Should have a built in option or let the extensions do the show.
By the way, that's the amazing of the vscode. For who that like to auto hide the panes too, see this extension: Auto Hide
lucianotres
on 26 May 2020
I'm just wondering why this is still open. Should have a built in option or let the extensions do the show.
By the way, that's the amazing of the vscode. For who that like to auto hide the panes too, see this extension: Auto Hide
I just tried it. It does exactly what I want! Thank you!
lebtron
on 26 May 2020
For keyboard shortcut users, here's my workaround.
Goal: to close all panels/sidebars and focus back on the editor on keystroke.
If you have a panel (terminal, console, linter, etc) or a sidebar (git, file explorer, etc) open or in focus, pressing the keybinding will focus your cursor back to the active editor tab and close all panels and sidebar.
Steps:
- Install geddski's macros extension
- Add to
settings.json
"terminal.integrated.commandsToSkipShell": [ "macros.switchToEditorHidePanes" ], "macros": { "switchToEditorHidePanes": [ "workbench.action.focusActiveEditorGroup", "workbench.action.closePanel", "workbench.action.closeSidebar" ] } - Add to
keybindings.json(I useesckey. Replace it what fits you best)
json { "key": "escape", "command": "macros.switchToEditorHidePanes", "when": "panelFocus || terminalFocus " }, { "key": "escape", "command": "macros.switchToEditorHidePanes", "when": "editorIsOpen && sideBarVisible" }, { "key": "escape", "command": "macros.switchToEditorHidePanes", "when": "activePanel" }, - profit!
jonyeezs
on 26 May 2020
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To all the +1 people, please stop. You're wasting time for everyone who's actually interested in this being added to VSCode or looking for work-arounds to help in the mean time. Unfortunately, I feel we need to lock this thread to prevent any more +1, even though there may be some useful solutions posted here in the future.
And yes this message just added to the noise, but hopefully it will stop this run of +1 comments. If you want to support this request, please add a thumb's up to the first message and move on. Thank you!