[Bug]: No way to disable the VSCode custom title bar after updating

[ading2210]

Is there an existing issue for this?

• I have searched the existing issues

OS/Web Information

• Web Browser: Firefox ESR 115
• Local OS: Debian 12
• Remote OS: Debian 12
• Remote Architecture: amd64
• code-server --version:

1.87.0
e5d145fdf32e82be2a0f8de9a3b05f65b13052b6
x64

Steps to Reproduce

1. Open code-server

Expected

There should be a way to disable the title bar, as it wastes vertical space that is already taken up by the browser's tab bar. In previous versions of code-server, the custom title bar was not shown by default.

Actual

There is no way to disable VSCode's built in title bar. Every solution mentioned here does not work.

The window.titleBarStyle setting does not exist in code-server, but in VSCodium, setting this to "native" disables the custom title bar.

Logs

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Screenshot/Video

Does this issue happen in VS Code or GitHub Codespaces?

• I tested this in native VS Code.
• This does not happen in native VS Code.
• I tested this in GitHub Codespaces.
• This does not happen in GitHub Codespaces.

Are you accessing code-server over a secure context?

• I am using a secure context.

Notes

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[code-asher]

Huh so this seems to be a bug (or intentional change) upstream. Normally you can set the menu bar style to compact (the default) and disable the command center and the top bar will disappear, and this was working in 1.85.1, but in the latest VS Code it does not work. Codespaces is still on 1.85.2 so it does not reproduce there at the moment.

It can be reproduce with vscode.dev though.

[code-asher]

Wait no if you also disable the layout control in the titlebar then finally the top bar disappears. My settings:

{
    "window.commandCenter": false,
    "workbench.layoutControl.enabled": false
}

[ading2210]

I just tried those settings and they worked, thanks! I guess the option names just changed between updates.