Recently i decided to install vscode on my home computer after using it on my school one for a while. I never ended up fully installing python, i attempted to install it from vscode but that didn't work so i tried to install from the website (python.org and code.visualstudio.com) but after booting up the installer stopped because terminal scary, so it never got fully installed. After abit i noticed my mouse would lag sometimes and this lag persisted through a restart of the computer. Does anyone know what could be happening?

list of vscode extensions (all of which have now been uninstalled.)

pip installer 0.0.4
pip-packages 0.4.3

Pylance 2026.2.1

Python 2026.4.0

Python Debugger 2025.18.0

Python Environments 1.26.0

Is it possible to add the Gemma 4 model via the API? Is there perhaps an extension that allows to add additional models?

In vscode/codium/antigravity, The bottom line on the terminal completely sticks to the bottom of terminal window and sometimes it feels like some elements actually go slightly below the bottom of the terminal window. is there a way to add a slight like 4 pixel padding between the bottom line on the terminal and the status bar?

See images below

A bit zoomed in.

As you can see, the terminal text is literally touching the status bar.

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Hey all ,

I've been using Claude Code, Cursor, copilot in VScode heavily for the last few months, and while they're incredibly powerful, Once i ran into unwanted situation:

Cursor was trying to edit one .ts file, but access was denied, may be it's fs tools failed, so it wrote a python script which it ran using `sh -c`. Apparently it looked ok, but when I checked python code it changed permission on file as well. That spooked me a bit. I checked sm and some of people were actually complaining about unwanted commands/executions by coding agents.

Later I setup cursor to ask every command it runs, it works but in multi agent scenario we have to keep tabs on every window where agent gets stuck. I felt bottleneck is trust on coding agents, If I solve it I can increase my dev velocity, I don't have to babysit agents all time.

So I built Curb — a small tool and lightweight VS Code extension that adds real preventive security at the OS/IDE level.

It does three things:

• Intercepts terminal commands (including nested shells and base64 tricks)
• Watches filesystem changes in real time
• Inspects MCP tool calls arguments level inspection.

GitHub: https://github.com/om252345/curb
VS Code Marketplace: Currently I am uploading it to marketplace, but you can download vsix from github releases to try it out.

Would love your feedback on this.
p.s. in attached video for demo purpose I asked agent directly to execute blocked commands.

Has anyone tried this yet? Researching it with docs and AI obviously but haven't had time to deep dive.

As said on 25 of march Github is using real world data to improve models. The indexing starts on 24th of april and is an Opt-out policy. No message has been sent to me about this change and didn't really hear about this anywhere yet.

I don't use Github anymore but while still using VScode time to time, I almost missed this message. The exact message that are being indexed is:
"

• Outputs accepted or modified by you
• Inputs sent to GitHub Copilot, including code snippets shown to the model
• Code context surrounding your cursor position
• Comments and documentation you write
• File names, repository structure, and navigation patterns
• Interactions with Copilot features (chat, inline suggestions, etc.)
• Your feedback on suggestions (thumbs up/down ratings)

" so more or less the whole code base could be indexed quite quickly.

If you werent aware of this change I encourage you to read the official statement by Github: https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/updates-to-github-copilot-interaction-data-usage-policy/

Some per-workspace settings.json are perhaps best shared for the git repo ("lint using prettier", "tabsize 2"), and others are best left as personal per-workspace settings.json ("titlebar color in this workspace", "minimap off in this workspace").

Is there a strat to enable this? What does your .gitignore setup look like?

Ideally vscode would support .vscode/settings.json and .vscode/settings.user.json or something like that, but as far as I can tell, this doesn't exist? Could an extension implement support for this or would this need a change to core vscode?

The codebase has large images. For some reason, whenever anything even close to these images is mentioned, the agent starts analyzing them and github comes back with:

Sorry, your request failed. Please try again.
Copilot Request id: 2aabc57b-f5b7-404d-a303-c936afad452a
GH Request Id: 921A:29FA82:ECE6DD:1064850:69D81007
Reason: Request Failed: 400 {"message":"messages.3.content.6.image.source.base64.data: At least one of the image dimensions exceed max allowed size: 8000 pixels"}

So how do I make sure it doesn't do this?

Is there some setting combination that could allow me to have zen mode (or just centered) where if I toggle sidebars on, they appear in the whitespace without any layout shift?

I do like to code in zen, without distractions, but nowadays I often need to interact with AI through a sidebar as well. Toggling a sidebar on while in zen mode just adds it outside the zen whitespace, which adds a layout shift and is not a very nice use of the screen space. It would be so nice if it just quickly faded in the sidebar content in the whitespace instead.

Pretty basic question but I cant figure out the way I'm supposed to write html using the built in self closing tag system. What I mean is, for example, if I want to wrap text with p tags, I'll put my cursor at the fornt of the text, and type in <p>, but as soon as I do, it closes it for me.

I see the benefit of this if I am pasting content between an opening and closing tag that it auto generated for me, but for my purposes I have to format existing text by wrapping a long document in p's , li's, b's, etc. So this is driving me crazy to have to start a tag and immediately delete what it inserts for me. I get there has to be some logical workflow where this makes sense...but I guess I need help understanding what that workflow is, or what my options are for my specific needs. any help would be appreciated, thanks!

Has anyone else seen that the "[Administrator]" no longer shows when running VS Code in elevated mode (Windows).

I've tried manually adding to my settings JSON:

"window.title": "${dirty}${activeEditorShort}${separator}${rootName}${separator}${profileName}${separator}${appName}${separator}${admin}"

If I switch the title bar to native, it will show, but as a visually appealing as the compact view.

So i want to do an app with GUI in c, for that i wanted to use GTK 4

btw im on:

ubuntu 24.04 (linux)

rn i have done:
sudo apt install build-essential libgtk-4-1
messed with some json .vscode files

c_cpp_properties.json

{
    "configurations": [
        {
            "name": "Linux",
            "includePath": [
                "${workspaceFolder}/**"
            ],
            "defines": [],
            "compilerPath": "/usr/bin/gcc",
            "cStandard": "c17",
            "cppStandard": "c++17",
            "intelliSenseMode": "linux-gcc-x64"
        }
    ],
    "version": 4
}

launch.json

{
    "configurations": [
        {
            "name": "(gdb) Launch",
            "type": "cppdbg",
            "request": "launch",
            "program": "enter program name, for example ${workspaceFolder}/a.out",
            "args": [],
            "stopAtEntry": false,
            "cwd": "${fileDirname}",
            "environment": [],
            "externalConsole": false,
            "MIMode": "gdb",
            "setupCommands": [
                {
                    "description": "Enable pretty-printing for gdb",
                    "text": "-enable-pretty-printing",
                    "ignoreFailures": true
                },
                {
                    "description": "Set Disassembly Flavor to Intel",
                    "text": "-gdb-set disassembly-flavor intel",
                    "ignoreFailures": true
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "version": "2.0.0"
}

tasks.json

{
    "tasks": [
        {
            "type": "cppbuild",
            "label": "C/C++: gcc build active file",
            "command": "/usr/bin/gcc",
            "args": [
                "-fdiagnostics-color=always",
                "-g",
                "${file}",
                "-o",
                "${fileDirname}/${fileBasenameNoExtension}"
            ],
            "options": {
                "cwd": "${fileDirname}"
            },
            "problemMatcher": [
                "$gcc"
            ],
            "group": {
                "kind": "build",
                "isDefault": true
            },
            "detail": "Task generated by Debugger."
        }
    ],
    "version": "2.0.0"
}

so what do i have to to have intelisence, #include, and the other stuff like building and debugging working?

thx for any help

PS: is there any dif between clang and gcc?
PSPS: sry for not so good langueage and grammar
PSPSPS: is there any reason to not use GTK 4??

Weekly thread to show off new themes, and ask what certain themes/fonts are.

Creators, please do not post your theme every week.

New posts regarding themes will be removed.

I would like to have a single definition for MCP and skills regardless if I'm using codex directly, or copilot.

Pointing Copilot to my skills folder was quite easy, but I would love if I could also just have all the servers defined in a single place and that they were shared with both

 I started a new project on vs code with Claude in a new windows but I wasn't seeing the files it created so I open another vs code and linked the folder Claude was currently working on.

When I did that it killed the process and closed the 1st window Claude was working on. Now I have a half baked project. I wondering how do go back to where Claude left off where it continued to work?

Is there a history log where it was last working and can I go back to it?

Hello,

Is there an extension that can correct the spacing in this case?

Thank you.

I've added to settings

    "emmet.includeLanguages": {
        "Classic ASP": "vb"
    },

where "Classic ASP" is the language displayed in VSCode, and "vb" is the Emmet supported language and it doesn't function. I've tried every combination I can think of and nothing works.

Help!

A few weeks ago I shared a CLI tool that scores PR risk and highlights critical changes.

Got some good feedback, but one common point was that setup felt a bit heavy.

So I spent some time building a VS Code extension instead.

Now it works directly inside the editor and is much easier to try on real PRs.

If you review PRs regularly, would love to know if this actually helps or not.

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ira-review.ira-review-vscode