How to reduce number of icons in tab bar?

Question

Well, I do not StackOverflow this is the best place for my question, but this is where I landed after clicking on "ask questions" in https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/editor/editingevolved

The icons pointed by the arrow are too many: on my 15" notebook, when the editor pane is split, depending on which tab is selected, I cannot read the full titles of three open tabs.

I would like to reduce their number or, if I can't, totally remove them. They have been added by an extension (related to git) that I find very convenient to have, so I would like to keep the extension, but to remove the icons.

I have:

• read https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/getstarted/userinterface
• read https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/getstarted/themes
• looked into settings.json for "icons"
• searched stackoverlow

plus many other, mainly random, attempts.

I could not find a way.

Any help?

Answer 1

They're added by GitLens. You can remove them with "gitlens.menus": false in settings.json.