microsoft/vscode#3742 (comment)

• Expand on hover
• Collapse on cursor leave
• Floating panel, without shifting the editor

Hello there!

Loving the extension, but it seems like it is only reacting to clicks on the editor window.

If you'd use CTRL+Shift+E to focus into the explorer tab and switch to a new file from there,
even though you start typing and the focus shifted over to the editor window,
the extension is not noticing the focus shift, hence leaving the sidebar and terminal windows open.

Thanks!

hi. thank you very much for this extension. I use it a lot. occasionally. sometimes very often.

I can't figure out how to adjust the time-out to my liking. I don't perceive that changing the values of autoHide.sideBarDelay (e.g. in @ext:sirmspencer.vscode-autohide ) has any perceivable effect on the actual behavior. Do the values represent milliseconds?

It seems to either basically go away almost immediately (default, which is great if you want that ), or it to never go away if i increase the number but maybe i'm adding too much to it

What might I be doing wrong?

I'd very much love having the sidebar go away, except maybe after 5-10 seconds or so

Thank you muchas gracias!

Problem:

I only want to enable autohide when I'm working on a small screen (laptop). When I'm on a big screen (external) I have ample room to leave the side bar open.

Proposed Solution:

Add a configuration that depending on the size of the window (and scaling) enables/disables autohide.

Some times i dont want activate the auto hide and the alternative is with a double click and then activate the auto hide.

I recently had a problem where the reference closes automatically whenever I open a reference and try editing something inside.
Had to uninstall a couple of extensions before figuring the autoHide.autoHideReferences is what is causing that.
I kinda feel that should be disabled unless the user turns it on themselves.

Thanks for the work by the way.

Type: Bug

• Open a Working tree window on a file that has lines changed from the ones in GIT.
• Click on the light bulb on the previous line in a change.
• The popup menu in which you can revert the change briefly appears and immediately disappears

Extension version: 1.0.8
VS Code version: Code 1.86.0 (05047486b6df5eb8d44b2ecd70ea3bdf775fd937, 2024-01-31T10:28:19.990Z)
OS version: Windows_NT x64 10.0.22631
Modes:

I think you are missing some Uri schemes in your event handling

https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/blob/main/src/vs/workbench/services/output/common/output.ts#L35

https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/blob/main/src/vs/workbench/services/output/common/output.ts#L20

As a keyboard user it would be awesome if autohide when the texteditor gets focus, whether its from mouse click or using keyb
board shortcuts. i.e.: cmd+shift+e to open explorer, use arrow keys to select a file to edit, press enter [text editor gets focus and sidebar is hidden]

https://code.visualstudio.com/api/extension-guides/web-extensions

So it gets available on github.dev / vscode.dev

Is it possible to get an option to disable certain panel to not be closed ?
for some project i'd like to keep the terminal open but still have the sidebar to be auto-hidden

Steps to replay:

• Create/open a empty file.
• Expand the sidebar and/or panel.
• Click on the empty file.

Expected: Hide the sidebar and/or panel.

Actual: Doesn't hide any of them.

VSCodium (a Microsoft free fork of VS Code) moved to Open VSX (a vendor-neutral repository) for extension distribution. It could be helpful for everyone, if the extension was published there as well.

Website
Guide on their repo

Type: Bug

I setup addon to only hide bottom panel
"autoHide.autoHideSideBar": false,

I open a new folder
but side bar auto hides, it shouldn't

When addon is disabled sidebar stays open, which is expected.

Same way when I enable addon, it auto hides side bar instantly, even though I specify not to in config
once I reopen sidebar it doesn't hide it again.

I think it executes hiding on init before it reads config.

Extension version: 1.0.8
VS Code version: Code 1.73.1 (6261075646f055b99068d3688932416f2346dd3b, 2022-11-09T04:27:29.066Z)
OS version: Windows_NT x64 10.0.19045
Modes: Unsupported
Sandboxed: No

Hello.

Please add option to show only Sidebar or Panel at a time (auto close other one if it was opened).
Because I were set both of them's position to one right side, so I want to open just only one at a time.

Thanks for this useful extension.

When using the Remote WSL extension this one is disabled on the host side and it is suggested to install it in WSL.
Is that intentional or doesn't this extension properly identify itself as a UI-only extension?
https://code.visualstudio.com/api/advanced-topics/remote-extensions#incorrect-execution-location

Hey, lovely extension.

One feature I'd love to see included is a way to hide the status bar as well. Ideally, I'd want it to show once I hover near it.
Let me know if this is something you agree with.

I installed and configured but it does not work. It just works when I change the file

I would like to configure the sidebar to stay open when the Debug window is opened.
In other cases, hide the sidebar as it is now.

Dear extension author,
Please publish this extension to the Open VSX marketplace.

Context

Unfortunately, as Microsoft prohibits usages of the Microsoft marketplace by any other products or redistribution of .vsix files from it, in order to use VS Code extensions in non-Microsoft products, we kindly ask that you take ownership of the VS Code extension namespace in Open VSX and publish this extension on Open VSX.

What is Open VSX? Why does it exist?

Open VSX is a vendor neutral alternative to the MS marketplace used by most other derivatives of VS Code like VSCodium, Gitpod, OpenVSCode, Theia-based IDEs, and so on.

You can read on about Open VSX at the Eclipse Foundation's Open VSX FAQ.

How can you publish to Open VSX?

The docs to publish an extension can be found here. This process is straightforward and shouldn't take too long. Essentially, you need an authentication token and to execute the ovsx publish command to publish your extension. There's also a doc explaining the whole process with an example GitHub Action workflow.

I was trying to use VS Code settings to set autoHidePanel to false, but the panel was still auto hiding. I eventually figured out that I had to restart VS Code for the setting change to take effect.

I'm using Auto Hide version 1.0.3

One thing that drives me nuts is if I launch VSCode using a Workspace file, the sidebar and panel reopen if they were opened when you quit. There's no VSCode setting to prevent this, unfortunately.

This would be a great feature—to ensure the panel and sidebar are closed on launch, no matter what.

I have some weird behavior if i use split panels for showing 2 files next to eachother. See gif for example.

• When i click on the non-active panel, the sidebar shows, it only shows briefly
• If you click on the non-active panel, for example the left and accidentally hover above the sidebar it stays open. You have to click again for it to autohide

Hi, first of all thank you for making this. This feature is still not implemented, so I really appreciate your effort in doing this.

The only thing that bugs me a lot is the fact that I have to click the small icon or use the hotkey to show the side bar, again. I would love to show it on hovering the activity bar. I know this is a duplicate of #13, but I think only this particular issue can be solved pretty quickly. Additionally, a timeout delay setting for that behavior would be nice, but I think it would already be a good upgrade to have a simple instant show on hover available.

The panel closes while attempting to select text therein. I like that it will autohide. I don't want it to autohide while i'm working in that area.
:)

E.g. Terminal > Output > Git

Hi,

Live this extension - I use it in demos, and when I record videos - it's great.

Any chance that you can add a configuration that will allow me to choose to activate the auto-hide only in zen mode?

Would be great to have the extension not autohide during debugging as this is when sidebar/terminal are very important. Great extension though, thank you!

Is it possible to hide both the panel and sidebar when focus is lost, or in other words, when the editor gains focus upon typing the first symbol, for example?

I think it would be convenient to be able to toggle pin/unpin sidbar or panel via a command. 😄

For example:

• Pin panel when checking search results.
• Pin sidebar when viewing diffs.

I suppose that the pin/unpin states should be effective only in current workspace.

Clicking into the output window hides it.
Is it an issue with the extension or an individual setup problem?

I have increased the time in the sideBarDelay and paneldelay options to be 10s (10000). The reason is I do not want the panels to auto-hide immediately as I often see a file and then decide maybe I need to see another file. As a result I stumbled upon an issue.

If we have the sideBar open and then click on the text editor it starts the countdown for the delay. However, then if we click on the sideBar the countdown still continues and if you are seeing something in the sideBar suddenly when the countdown delay reaches 0 it closes. I was hoping that when we click on the sideBar or the panel then the countdown should reset and not be triggered.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Set the autoHide.autoHidePanel and the autoHide.sideBarDelay to 10000 ms.
2. Open the sidebar or terminal.
3. Click on the text editor (this will start the delay setTimeout functions and lets call this T1). Immediately, click on the sidebar or the terminal within 10s.
4. When the setTimeout T1 expires it will close the sidebar/terminal

Desired Change
When you click on the sidebar or the terminal the setTimeout should be cleared.