CODEWITHSUNDEEP
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eugenekr
eugenekr

Reputation: 6602

How to remove file type abbreviations in front of the file names in vs code explorer?

This appeared after recent update. All files have file type markings in front of file names which is superfluous and distracting. How to remove it?

Problem description

Upvotes: 1

Views: 507

Answers (1)

Gama11
Gama11

Reputation: 34138

This is one of the new default settings introduced in 1.13.0 - the file icon theme setting now defaults to "Seti" rather than "None".

You can switch back to "None" with F1 > Preferences: File Icon Theme > None. Alternatively, just add "workbench.iconTheme": null to your settings.json.

Upvotes: 2

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