vscode: Native Sierra-tabs are not working in macOS 10.12.x

  • VSCode Version: V1.36.0 (1.36.0) and higher
  • OS Version: macOS 10.12(.0-6)

Steps to Reproduce:

  1. Download latest release
  2. Try to use Sierra tab feature

Note: Insiders build already does not work on Sierra Note 2: This feature works only for High Sierra and Mojave Note 3: Can this feature be added to without OS specific? i.e. for Windows users and/or for El Capitan users? Note 4: Upgrading to Mojave isn’t solution as Mojave not available to all users

Does this issue occur when all extensions are disabled?: Yes

About this issue

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  • State: closed
  • Created 5 years ago
  • Reactions: 1
  • Comments: 37 (13 by maintainers)

Most upvoted comments

I found workaround by trying many ways to get it work in Sierra.

Required: System Preferences -> Dock -> Open document in tabs -> Only in full-screen mode.

  1. Run VSCode
  2. Maximize / make it Full-screen
  3. Click Window -> New Tab in VSCode
  4. Make revert window status to previous state (no full-screen)
  5. Maximize again.
  6. Enjoy working solution.

If you want open new tabs, try 3-5 steps again.

Note: If you forgot steps 4 and 5, you able to use native-tabs, but top tabs bar will be empty or hidden (i don’t why)

This solution tested in v1.40 and v1.39.

Hope it helps you 😄

@bpasero, I can confirm the issue still persists with the exploration build

By the way: In order to reproduce, you must set “Prefer tabs when opening documents” to “Always” in System Preferences > Dock

Screen Shot 2019-07-10 at 15 47 37

@bpasero You can track bug at here in Electron repository

@dalisoft thanks a ton for doing this ❤️ . Now as a last step, can you distill this into an issue against Electron here and link the bug back here?

@babakks Aw, sorry. Please, really sorry. Yes, i mean @bpasero !

We are building exploration builds that use a much newer version of our UI framework (Electron version 6.0.x). I wonder if this issue reproduces with one of these builds, could you try? Download: