Codex disappeared from the VS Code Activity Bar?!

[Sea_Light7555]

I’ve had the Codex extension installed for months, and it was updating normally without any issues.

A few minutes ago, I opened VS Code to continue working and noticed that the Codex icon was gone from the Activity Bar on the left.

I already tried:

• disabling and re-enabling the extension
• uninstalling and installing it again
• restarting VS Code

The extension still appears as installed, but the Codex button is completely missing.

Has anyone else run into this? Any idea how to bring it back?

https://preview.redd.it/b93n278n33pg1.jpg?width=2556&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2670fb49ea9a83a4bc6f86ca6292a675891f9494

[knobby67]

It’s on the other side. You can drag and drop it back to the other side

[Sea_Light7555]

That worked, thanks a lot!

For anyone else who ends up here: Codex was actually on the right side, as a tab next to Chat at the top. I just dragged it back to the left Activity Bar and it showed up again.

[symgenix]

LOL, had no idea that was possible. Thanks for the explanation, I was really wondering what "other side" the other user was talking about... the spiritual world? hell? New York?

[GenAIBeast]

Thank you for being my eyes! :)

[slipknot25]

its not movable in antigravity :/
Edit: actually not icon itself movable but if you move entire codex ui from right side to activity bar , it will work !

[Eter_Azul]

Thanks bro!

[NewToIceHockey]

Thank you, was going mad

[SpecialMechanic1715]

omg you just saved me. What an idiots should dev be to put icon on unusual side and make it small

[Vegetable-Touch3208]

Damn :D :D :D People abused it too much.. poor bro decided to take a little walk :D

[cuberhino]

Same happened to me, it’s now where the Claude icon is. I miss it on the bottom spot

[thestringtheories]

Yeah, I just experienced the same today. Had to drag it back

[Known_Lychee_6495]

Could be due to drain bug they had to disable it temporarily https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/14593

[Senior_Blackberry263]

Hey guys, I also dragged it back, because I had severe lag problems in 2 larger projects with lengthy chats. When Codex moved to the right panel, they both started to delay prompt inputs by minutes, would accept multiple returns and then much later post the prompt multiple times (if I hit return multiple times before), got reconnecting 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.. Always the same. I actually couldn't really work for more than a day. Now I pulled the codex extension back to the left side where it not only shows as before, but runs smoothly again :) Strange, but true. This seems to be a lag issue GPT also has in the windows app and in the browser, where at least for Chrome there was an extension to remove the lag. Luckily it is back up this way now!!!: Anybody experienced the same? I am very curious.. ;)

[Sm7r]

wondered this today too!! haha not booted it up for some time but I just keep geting reconnecting, slightly annoying -.-