Friday, December 5, 2025

better window titles in vs code

At work we have a monorepo using module federation, and often I find it expedient to open a VS Code window just on the module I'm working on, so ctrl-p and ctrl-shift-f are scoped to the problem at hand. 

(Yes for work I'm back on Windows)

One problem is that by default windows are titled first by the current open file - but you can ctrl-, or cmd-, to open up the settings, look for "window.title" then arrange the string so that rootName is first. This means the current open "folder"/app is more visible on the task bar or alt-tab window selector,

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