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Pet Penguin

Pet Penguin

Sachin Arya

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3 installs
| (1) | Free
A cute animated penguin companion that lives in your editor. Watch it blink, wiggle, and jump while you code!
Installation
Launch VS Code Quick Open (Ctrl+P), paste the following command, and press enter.
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Pet Penguin

A cute animated penguin companion that lives in your VS Code editor. Watch it blink, wiggle, and jump while you code!

Built entirely with CSS -- no heavy assets, no performance impact.

Features

  • Animated penguin with blinking eyes, wiggling, and jumping
  • Sits quietly in the corner of your editor
  • Configurable opacity and position
  • Automatically hides in sidebars, panels, and chat views
  • Works with VS Code and Cursor

Usage

  1. Open the Command Palette (Ctrl+Shift+P / Cmd+Shift+P)
  2. Run Pet Penguin: Enable
  3. Click Reload Window when prompted
  4. Your penguin appears in the bottom corner of the editor!

Commands

Command Description
Pet Penguin: Enable Inject the penguin into your editor
Pet Penguin: Disable Remove the penguin
Pet Penguin: Toggle Toggle the penguin on/off

Settings

Setting Default Description
petPenguin.opacity 0.6 Penguin opacity (0.1 to 1.0)
petPenguin.position bottom-right Position: bottom-right or bottom-left

About the "[Unsupported]" Warning

After enabling Pet Penguin, VS Code may show [Unsupported] in the title bar. This is expected behavior -- it happens with any extension that modifies VS Code's internal files (like custom CSS extensions). It does not affect functionality or stability.

To dismiss the warning, you can install the Fix VSCode Checksums extension and run its "Fix Checksums" command.

After VS Code Updates

VS Code updates may overwrite the internal files and remove the penguin. Simply run Pet Penguin: Enable again and reload.

Troubleshooting

Permission Denied

If you get a permission error when enabling:

macOS / Linux:

sudo chown -R $(whoami) "$(which code)/../../Resources/app/out"

Windows: Run VS Code as Administrator.

License

MIT

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