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Peacock

John Papa

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Subtly change the workspace color of your workspace. Ideal when you have multiple VS Code instances and you want to quickly identify which is which.
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Launch VS Code Quick Open (Ctrl+P), paste the following command, and press enter.
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Peacock for Visual Studio Code

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Subtly change the color of your Visual Studio Code workspace. Ideal when you have multiple VS Code instances, use VS Live Share, or use VS Code's Remote features, and you want to quickly identify your editor.

Read the extensive documentation here which includes a guide on how to use Peacock and a changelog

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Install

  1. Open Extensions sideBar panel in Visual Studio Code and choose the menu options for View → Extensions
  2. Search for Peacock
  3. Click Install
  4. Click Reload, if required

Documentation

Read the extensive documentation here which includes a guide on how to use Peacock and a changelog

Quick Usage

Let's see Peacock in action!

  1. Create/Open a VSCode Workspace (Peacock only works in a Workspace)
  2. Press F1 to open the command palette
  3. Type Peacock
  4. Choose Peacock: Change to a favorite color
  5. Choose one of the pre-defined colors and see how it changes your editor

Now enjoy exploring the rest of the features explained in the docs!

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Resources

  • Peacock docs are hosted on Azure -> Get a Free Azure Trial
  • Get VS Code
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  • VS Code Extension API
  • Learn how to add WebPack bundles to your favorite extensions

Credits

Inspiration comes in many forms. These folks and teams have contributed either through ideas, issues, pull requests, or guidance. Thank you!

  • The VS Code team and their incredibly helpful guide for creating extensions

  • Here are some great examples for extensions from the VS Code team

Code of Conduct

Code of Conduct.

Problems or Suggestions

Open an issue here

Contributors

Contribution guidelines are located here

Thanks goes to these wonderful people (emoji key):


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Oleg Solomka

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Joseph Rex

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Sam Julien

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Shayne Boyer

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Burke Holland

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Jonathan Carter

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Ricardo Souza

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Kushal Pandya

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Erich Gamma

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Christian Nwamba

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Matt Bierner

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Raymond Camden

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Aaron Powell

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tanhakabir

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Nate Drake

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This project follows the all-contributors specification. Contributions of any kind welcome!

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