Desktop: "Toggle Sidebar" doesn't do anything #55536

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1. opencode-agent commented on Oct 14, 2026

   

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   Thanks for the report! I couldn't reproduce this here because it needs the macOS desktop app, so a maintainer with a Mac will need to confirm it. Reading the code points the same way, both in 2.0.29 and on the latest dev (13afea6): the View → Toggle Sidebar menu item points at a sidebar.toggle command, but nothing in the app registers a command with that name. So the item can't do anything.

   Related issues, ordered by likelihood:

   • In the Linux desktop app (new layout), several menu items in the app menu are greyed out / disabled #40898: the same dead menu entry (with Toggle Terminal and Toggle File Tree), confirmed on 2.0.22. It was closed during the v1 issue cleanup.
   • 'Toggle Sidebar' still non-functional in 2.0.24 — sidebar.toggle has no webapp command (follow-up to #28971) #53631: the same problem on 2.0.24, closed as a duplicate of In the Linux desktop app (new layout), several menu items in the app menu are greyed out / disabled #40898.
   • Bug: Revisión panel not collapsable - View > Toggle Sidebar disabled + splitter min-width #45441: mentions Toggle Sidebar being greyed out, but is mainly about the review panel.
   • [FEATURE]: Restore the legacy UI with the persistent left sidebar as an option #48882: a feature request to bring back the persistent left sidebar.

   Until this is sorted out, Settings → General → Tabs → "Vertical" gives you a side layout, which may be closer to the session switcher you were expecting.
2. ahmetb commented on Oct 14, 2026

   

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   1. Until this is sorted out, Settings → General → Tabs → "Vertical" gives you a side layout, which may be closer to the session switcher you were expecting.

   yeah this is not bad at all
3. RafaelSFelski commented on Oct 23, 2026

   

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   Confirming on Windows x64, desktop 2.1.4 (latest stable, 2026-10-23) — and on Windows it's not just inert: the item is permanently greyed out, because the in-app menubar (packages/app/src/shell/titlebar/windows-menu.tsx) disables any entry whose command id has no registered command, and sidebar.toggle is still not registered anywhere in the v2.1.4 release tag.

   For whoever picks this up: the implementation already exists on beta — #55646 added the toggle (mod+shift+b), #57919 wired the menu accelerator, #58156 added the hover peek — but it isn't on the release line, and there's no beta desktop feed to install from (https://opencode.ai/update/api/latest/desktop/opencode/beta.yml → 404).

   One detail worth deciding: on beta, command.register("sidebar", …) in shell.tsx only runs when appearance.tabLayout is vertical, so with horizontal tabs the View item stays disabled even after those PRs ship. Should the item be hidden in horizontal layout, or should it do something in both layouts? Happy to re-test on Windows once a build includes it.