VSCodium: Filtering Non-Critical Notifications While Preserving Critical Alerts
0 reputation · 16 Mar 2021, 05:24 UTC
Goal: Reduce Notification Noise
In VSCodium I want to keep only the most useful prompts—such as critical errors or security warnings—while suppressing routine alerts like extension update offers or telemetry prompts. The intent is to maintain a clean workspace without losing important information.
Current Configuration Landscape
The workbench.notificationDuration setting controls auto‑dismissal of transient messages, and a global notifications.enable toggle can hide all desktop modal alerts. Each extension can contribute notification filters via contributes.notifications, yet there is no documented way to apply a blanket filter across all extensions or to differentiate between severity levels in a single rule.
Unresolved Questions
Can VSCodium be configured to automatically hide notifications of a specific type (e.g., extensionUpdate) while still displaying error or warning messages?
Is there a setting that allows exclusion of notifications from specific sources or categories without disabling all modal alerts?
Does the global notifications.enable toggle affect only modal dialogs, or does it also suppress transient notifications that appear in the activity bar?
