Add options to hide title and status bar

[WindSoilder]

Description

Usually I feel some components of zed editor(title and status bar) are redundant to me, and I just want to focus on the editor itself. It's something called zen mode in vscode.

It's something similar to #5333, but I want to hide more..

Describe the solution you'd like

Here is the components I want to be able to hide:

Here is how vscode shows:

[rsmirnov90]

Yeah this would be super good to have… Currently like 10-20% of the screen real estate is completely wasted for no reason whatsoever.

This is the only major thing keeping me from switching over from terminal-based editors… I often need work with 10-15 files open at the same time, and with the current layout more than 4-5 files is impossible.

Would also be good to toggle the breadcrumb bar. Line numbers are toggleable which is awesome! (but not nearly enough, IMO!)

[philippbosch]

@rsmirnov90 you can hide the breadcrumb bar like this:

{
  "toolbar": {
    "breadcrumbs": false,
    "quick_actions": false
  },
}

[mcpeng]

We have Titlebar, TabBar, Toolbar, StatusBar, they occupy too much valuable vertical space, like old M$ Office. Considering the characteristics of collaboration, perhaps they can be placed in the StatusBar.

[yasinkavakli]

Guys, it's 2024 and we don't have an option to disable the status bar? That should've been added in the first beta.
Come on, I can't switch to Zed when the UI is full of noise. I want to disable everything that I don't need (includes the sign in button, status bar, tabs, titlebar and everything else).

[mhanuszh]

When (if?) we get this feature, can we have the ability to still show the panel buttons, just like in VSCode?

My current layout:

[themahdavi]

options for full customizing UI are one of basic things on editors. please add soon as possible.
we don't need second visual studio code just add basics
Thanks.

[dekdevy]

Big bump. Onboarding zed has been a breeze - don't want to come off as pushy, its truly awesome. But when I see that top title bar I am wondering what the thought process was. Same for the status bar height. Editors keep getting these absolute basics wrong and I dont understand why. Please let users configure what happens on their screen real estate.

• Top Window bar height / disable entirely
• Status bar height / disable entirely
• Project Panel: vertical line height. Also, default indent seems insanely large - at can be edited, so its fine!

A permanent "sign in" button isn't giving off the right vibes - I think many people are looking for something in between vscode and sublime, and initially zed seems like a great tool in the right direction, but when it throws "sign in" "use github" "use assistant" "use chat" "collaborate with team members" "use copilot" your way when opening for the first time, I feel like we're headed right back into windows 11.

[qqap]

A bit of a temporary workaround, but to completely hide the status bar, and blank the title bar while maintaining a functional code editor and terminal, you can just change the ui_font_size to 0.

  "ui_font_size": 0,
  "buffer_font_size": 14,

[iliass-ess]

A bit of a temporary workaround, but to completely hide the status bar, and blank the title bar while maintaining a functional code editor and terminal, you can just change the `ui_font_size` to 0.

  "ui_font_size": 0,
  "buffer_font_size": 14,

Yes this could be a workaround, the only issue is everything else that's not your buffer will not be usable (file explorer, Markdown preview... )

[dlindenkreuz]

For me, the toolbar ("title bar") is hidden when adding these settings:

"toolbar": {
  "breadcrumbs": false,
  "quick_actions": false
},

[JulienLecoq]

For me, the toolbar ("title bar") is hidden when adding these settings:

"toolbar": {
  "breadcrumbs": false,
  "quick_actions": false
},

Weird, I still have it with this (on macOS).

[juliangarnier]

For me, the toolbar ("title bar") is hidden when adding these settings:

"toolbar": {
  "breadcrumbs": false,
  "quick_actions": false
},

Weird, I still have it with this (on macOS).

Doesn't work for me either.

[nemeott]

+1. would love to see this actually huge vertical screen estate expansion

Agreed. This would be very useful for those using tiling window managers. An extra 5 lines of code on the screen goes a long way.

[morgankrey]

Hi folks, closing this in favor of a discussion - this is a feature request and not a bug/issue.

[ShalokShalom]

You forgot doing it.

[whichware]

So you mean feature requests shouldn’t be posted as issues at all? That makes no sense.

Hiding the titlebar is such a simple tweak. Why refuse to implement it? Just add a toggle option, is it really that difficult? Or at least allow hiding it in fullscreen mode.

[whichware]

I was genuinely surprised to see this issue closed. Just a few days ago it was still one of the most upvoted issues in the repo. I actually thought it had been closed because the feature was finally implemented — only to find out it was closed for this reason instead.

[DissolveDZ]

I really hope this gets implemented soon

[0x6e697678]

they will not. many long-awaited issues get rejected by the dev team for unreasonable reasons.

[iobradovi]

+1, it rly sucks that there's no actual option to show the menu bar within the title bar permanently and that it spawns a separate bar, and that there is no way to hide the custom title bar in case i use server side decorations in linux.

[Gaiko-sw]

There's also a pixel space everywhere, so you can't click things on the edge of the screen anyway, which is why I would want tabs to be the very top line.

[m4saurabh]

It's not gonna happen because they added it once and then they removed it.

[whichware]

why?

[rudiodeo]

If I'm not mistaken, because it's not working well for macOS, maybe something to do with the window decoration when hiding the title bar or something like that

[whichware]

If I'm not mistaken, because it's not working well for macOS, maybe something to do with the window decoration when hiding the title bar or something like that

I get that there might be some macOS window decoration quirks, but the current situation where we can't hide it at all is way worse. Any minor issues with hidden titlebars are things users would happily accept as a trade-off.

Literally every other major IDE and code editor on macOS supports hiding the titlebar perfectly fine. VS Code, Sublime Text, JetBrains IDEs — all of them have had this feature for years. If they can make it work, why can't Zed?

Just make it an optional toggle. Let users decide for themselves if they want to use it, even if there are some edge cases.

[NicTanghe]

i only switched from lvim to zed becouse it uses less ram but now that i c that it is impossible to not waiste 20% of screen real estate im going back.

[jmoore34]

I believe the MacOS issue was fixed in #42540, and the PR also added a toggle command to let you see items on the title bar whenever needed; however the PR was still rejected

[berkeleyinc]

This is actually the only missing feature that is stopping me from using zed as a daily driver

[rakibdev]

1. hide title bar
2. git staged/unstage diffs
3. full file diffs
   got none other than new copilot integration

[whichware]

I was genuinely surprised to see this issue closed. Just a few days ago it was still one of the most upvoted issues in the repo. I actually thought it had been closed because the feature was finally implemented — only to find out it was closed for this reason instead.

Hiding the titlebar is such a simple tweak. Why refuse to implement it? Just add a toggle option, is it really that difficult? Or at least allow hiding it in fullscreen mode.

[rudiodeo]

I understand your frustation, I want this feature to be realized so bad too.
I'm not a Rust dev, but I kinda understand the complication for implementing it looking at the codes for the title bar functionality, even the codes for the taken out PR looks pretty hackish from my limited observation.
I try to apply the taken out patch in my forked repo, but the current code base is too much diverged from it that I couldn't tell head from tail how to deal with it, so I decided to just removed the title bar entirely and don't bother with the toggle option :))

[Quicksilver151]

Same here. the title bar is massive for me and it sucks i cant change it

[0x6e697678]

they want to keep it for their never-used-by-solo-devs collaboration feature. #42540 (comment)

[Quicksilver151]

i quite liked the built in collab feature. but you dont need a whole titlebar for that

[debuxxed]

are we done?

[0x6e697678]

the fact that they used a no-title-bar Zed version to showcase the edit prediction (see the announcement) while rejecting community contributions because of their "redesign" is hilarious.

[jmoore34]

Since I have an ultrawide monitor, I have an abundance of horizontal space but limited vertical space. That is, everything in the title bar (project, git branch, collab) could be added to the status bar and I'd still have space left over. Every user's workflow and situation is a bit different, which is why customization is such an important feature in editors like VS Code, Emacs, etc. It's bewildering that Zed maintainers are rejecting PRs to add this small feature, and it doesn't really seem to match the spirit of open source, especially considering the overwhelming community support in #5120

[elf-pavlik]

#38756 (comment)

I think we could do that if we also limited it to Linux (as is done by vscodes equivalent setting). Really the use case for this is tiling window managers, but on macOS if you hide the title bar the traffic light icons crash into the content.

@ConradIrwin could we get it for Linux please? I use hyprland on ultrawide, evaluating switching to zed from neovim - using mostly keyboard. This empty bar with a useless 🍔 is just awful 😭

[Raeproject99]

I am working on a fork for this.

Currently I seem to have gotten it to work on MacOS and will soon get around to Linux.

I am by no means an experienced rust developer, but I think this is quite an easy thing for AI to accomplish, with some minor tweaks. I will try to keep you posted.

[prijatelj]

Yesterday Claude Code one shot the setting and toggling of that setting for title bar visibility and I have it working on a test build in Linux. Here is my fork's commit. However, I am ensuring it matches Zed's code style & quality, properly fits the current Zed design, and matches the quality of the prior pull requests, which I was not aware of earlier.

Prior Pull Requests:

• Added the visibility setting only: Add setting to show/hide title bar #37428
  • There was some request for an Enum rather than a bool to handle certain cases, such as "hide when in full screen" or "hide when tab bar empty".
• Revert due to Mac visibility issue and redesign intent: Revert "Add setting to show/hide title bar (#37428)" #38756
• Re-added setting with toggle and a MacOS visual fix: Add option to toggle the title bar #42540

Related, the original issue requesting to merge the tabs into title bar: #5066

Given all of this, it seems they want the title bar redesign done before any feature for this is accepted. I would still want the ability to toggle the visibility of all docks and panels that aren't the editor, regardless of any title bar redesign. I use a window tiling manager setup and being able to selectively turn on/off different visual elements temporarily and by default is my ideal. Such a design loses no features and provides the user with ample customization to suit their needs.

[elf-pavlik]

my zed bar is now an empty bar with a single burger menu icon, completely useless and a waste of space.

same! I like Zed a lot, their work on ACP is amazing, vim mode is awesome, very unfortunate that such a small issue breaks that otherwise great experience 😢

[rakibdev]

i just switched to neovim and wrote full ui (explorer, git panel...) myself

[0x6e697678]

i just switched to neovim and wrote full ui (explorer, git panel...) myself

i switched from neovim to zed because of the endless config in neovim. neovim is cool and free, but it takes way too much time for me to tweak things. zed is still so good to me so far, but the bar is the only problem.

[Quicksilver151]

Long live open source.

[debuxxed]

can we have some transparency on what's this redesign is?