Drag Visual Studio Code.app to the Applications folder, making it available in the macOS Launchpad. Add VS Code to your Dock by right-clicking on the icon to bring up the context menu and choosing Options, Keep in Dock. Launching from the command line # You can also run VS Code from the terminal by typing 'code' after adding it to the path. For running Visual Studio Code from the terminal, you need to do a few extra steps as from Running Visual Studio Code on macOS: Get Visual Studio Code up and running on Mac (macOS): Launching from the Command Line. You can also run VS Code from the terminal by typing ‘code’ after adding it to the path: Launch VS Code.
Note: This extension is still very much a work-in-progress. Please report bugs to the GitHub repository.
Native macOS is a color theme for Visual Studio Code that aims to match native macOS applications as closely as possible. The extension includes four versions - two light and two dark, with a light and a dark editor version for each. You can download it here.
Native macOS - Light Theme
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Optional Tweaks
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There are a few optional tweaks you can do to really nail down the look of native macOS. The native title bar, for example, really makes a huge difference, and so does the font, SF Mono (you can find that here, if you don't already have it installed). You can easily perform these tweaks by using the command pallette to open
settings.json
(Shift
+ Ctrl
+ P
on Windows, Shift
+ ⌘
+ P
on Mac) and searching 'Preferences'.You can also hide the Activity bar and replace it with an extension like Activitus Bar to further the look, and use an extension like Vibrancy to enhance it.
If you'd like, you can also disable the minimap, though I personally prefer to keep mine on for ease of use.
To complete the look, you can also replace the default icon of Visual Studio Code with one of the macOS-themed icons included.
icon.png
will work on both macOS and Windows, and icon.icns
and icon.ico
will work exclusively on each one respectively.To replace the application icon on macOS
Navigate to your applications folder and find Visual Studio Code. Right-click on it, then click 'Get Info'.
Navigate to the Visual Studio Code extensions folder (
Users/your-name/.vscode/extensions
)1. Find the Native macOS Theme Folder (dsoloha.native-macos-0.0.1
), then drag the icon.icns
file onto the Info pane, onto the small icon at the top (directly under the title bar).Visual Studio Code Macos Sierra
Restart Visual Studio Code. Remove it from your dock and re-add it, if necessary.
1 If the
.vscode
folder isn't showing, press Shift
+ ⌘
+ .
to show your hidden folders.To replace the program icon on Windows
Open the directory in which you installed Visual Studio Code (
C:usersyour-nameAppDataLocalProgramsMicrosoft VS Code
by default). Right-click the VSCode.exe
executable, then click Properties, then press the Change Icon button. From here, navigate to the Visual Studio Code extensions directory (%USERPROFILE%.vscodeextensions
by default). Double-click on icon.ico
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Restart Visual Studio Code.