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Nikita
Nikita

Reputation: 479

How to stop VSCode having colored tab names

Since some recent update, VSCode started adding colors to tab names as seen here:

The blue, orange. No idea what the colors mean.

But I want to turn it off and have all tabs be black if it's possible.

Upvotes: 15

Views: 3225

Answers (3)

Oliver K
Oliver K

Reputation: 17

The answer by Mark is how to disable the colorings completely. But if you instead wanted to customize the colors, you can adjust various properties (documented here) in your workbench.colorCustomizations setting:

  • list.errorForeground: Files containing errors.
  • list.warningForeground: Files containing warnings.
  • gitDecoration.addedResourceForeground: Added Git files.
  • gitDecoration.modifiedResourceForeground: Modified Git files.
  • Several other git related settings, see documentation linked above.

Note that these all will also affects the filename coloring in the sidebar/explorer view. I don't think there's a way to separate these, as they're both controlled by the same setting.

Example in settings.json:

    "workbench.colorCustomizations": {
    "[Monokai]":  {                       // Optional - limit to a specific theme
    {
        "list.errorForeground":"#ff00ff", // make errors purple just for fun
    },

Upvotes: 1

oleh.bdn
oleh.bdn

Reputation: 1170

Go to settings.json and paste

 "tab.inactiveForeground": "#000000",
 "tab.activeForeground": "#000000",

The first one is for the color of the inactive tab name and the second one is for the color of the active tab name.

P.S. don't forget to put it inside

  "workbench.colorCustomizations": {
     "tab.inactiveForeground": "#yourcolor",
     "tab.activeForeground": "#yourcolor",
}

Upvotes: 7

Mark
Mark

Reputation: 181080

I assume you are using the Insiders' Build. You can disable those tab "decorations" with these settings:

Workbench > Editor > Decorations: Colors
Workbench > Editor > Decorations: Badges

Those would override your tab foreground if you don't disable them.

Then you color your tab colors if you need to.

Upvotes: 32

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