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Custom App Icons

Custom App Icons

Daniel Bayley

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Easily replace the VS Code app icon, and associated file icons, with your own from the user settings folder.
Installation
Launch VS Code Quick Open (Ctrl+P), paste the following command, and press enter.
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VS Code Custom App icons

Replace the Visual Studio Code app icon, and associated file icons, with your own from the user settings folder.

[!NOTE] Changes persist across updates and restarts, but are reverted on uninstall.

Install

code --install-extension danielbayley.custom-app-icons

This extension is also available from the Open VSX registry.

Usage

Drop your custom *.(icns|ico|png|bmp) files in an icons/ directory of your user settings folder, or specify an alternative customAppIcons.path in the package settings. For example, on macOS:

VSCODE=Code # or VSCodium
mkdir -p "$HOME/Library/Application Support/$VSCODE/User/icons" && cp *.icns $_

[!NOTE] You may need to restart VS Code for changes to apply.

[!TIP] See the complete list of icons for macOS, Windows or Linux.

File icons will apply to all corresponding files associated with VS Code.

License

MIT © Daniel Bayley

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