Allow per-workspace or per-profile background customization

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Hey, thanks for the feature request. This has come up a few times. Right now there’s no native support for per-workspace or per-profile backgrounds, but there are a couple of solid workarounds:

  1. Peacock extension. You already mentioned it, and it’s honestly the best option right now: Peacock - Visual Studio Marketplace. It works in Cursor without issues.

  2. Native approach via workspace settings. You can set workbench.colorCustomizations in each workspace’s .vscode/settings.json for titleBar, statusBar, activityBar, etc. This works out of the box with no extensions.

Related threads for context:

I’ll pass your feedback about native per-profile theming to the team. No timelines yet, but votes do help with prioritization.