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Snow Background

Snow Background

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Animated snow effect for VS Code
Installation
Launch VS Code Quick Open (Ctrl+P), paste the following command, and press enter.
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Snow Background for VS Code

Adds a beautiful animated snow effect to your VS Code editor.

Features

  • Customizable snow on different areas (editor, sidebar, panel, terminal)
  • Adjustable speed, opacity, color, and wind direction
  • Gentle wobbling motion for realistic snowfall
  • Cursor interaction - snowflakes are pushed aside by your mouse
  • WSL2 support

Usage

  1. Open Command Palette (Ctrl+Shift+P)
  2. Run "Snow Background: Enable"
  3. Restart VS Code

Notes

  • After every VS Code update, you need to re-enable the extension as updates overwrite the modified files.
  • After enabling, VS Code will show a "corrupted" warning. This is harmless — click the gear icon and select "Don't Show Again".
  • Before uninstalling, you must disable the extension first by running "Snow Background: Disable". This removes the injected code from VS Code.
  • macOS users: If you get a permission error, run this in Terminal:
    sudo chown -R $(whoami) "/Applications/Visual Studio Code.app"
    

Settings

Setting Description Default
snowBackground.areas Areas to show snow ["editor"]
snowBackground.flakeCount Number of snowflakes 100
snowBackground.speed Fall speed 2
snowBackground.opacity Snow opacity 0.6
snowBackground.wind Wind angle 0.5
snowBackground.color RGB color 255, 255, 255
snowBackground.cursorInteraction Enable cursor repulsion true
snowBackground.cursorRadius Cursor repulsion radius (px) 60
snowBackground.cursorStrength Cursor repulsion strength 1.0
snowBackground.windowsUsername Windows username (WSL) Auto-detect

License

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2026 Tobias Hönel

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

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