Activity Bar width in Visual Studio Code

Question

Is there a way to selectively change the width of the Activity Bar in VSCode (v. 1.14)? I have a 1366×768 screen where every pixel counts, so I would like to make this bar narro

Answer 1

I recommend the excellent extension Activitus Bar. It recreate the activity bar buttons on the status bar:

Then, you just hide this enormous, gigantic activity bar. Happying code!