showing project folder in title bar for Visual Studio Code

Question

Is it possible to show the last folder in the title bar? If you have multiple instances of VS Code open, it is difficult to distinguish between them from the task bar. If both instances are open on say a file called 'main.ts', you will see 'main.ts' in the taskbar item.

Currently, the title would be [filename open] - [folder open] (e.g main.ts - angular2-training. Is it possible to invert them to become [folder open] - [filename open] (e.g angular2-training - main.ts?

Answer 1

Use window.title in user/workspace settings

The documentation is here with the full list of options of what can be shown. It's quite flexible.

In your case, to display angular2-training - main.ts you can use this

{   "window.title": "${rootName}${separator}${activeEditorShort}" } 

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_{Older VS Code versions}

_{The above only works in v1.10 and up. Here's how to do it in older versions:}

_{v1.9, v1.8 - "window.showFullPath": true shows the full path to the current file, so you can at least see the project folder. Note this config is unsupported after v1.10}

_{v1.7 and below - it's not possible}

Answer 2

On version 1.13

Go to settings, inside UserSettings add this line to the json blob:

"window.title": "${activeEditorLong}"

On version 1.41.1