No way to configure the minimap's font-size and width.

[aurexav]

Summary

As describe in https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/pull/26893, we should able to adjust these values.

No way to configure the font-size and width.

Zed Version and System Specs

Zed: v0.187.5 (Zed) OS: macOS 15.5.0 Memory: 64 GiB Architecture: aarch64

[nealxm]

would also be nice to have the option of disabling the thumb if possible. thanks for adding this feature, looks great!

[MrSubidubi]

To give this a quick heads-up: It was decided within the PR that neither will be exposed for now. We figured that giving control over these configs like this would only lead to issues in the future and that the setting would definitely have to be changed afterwards, hence we did not even add them at first. Something like this will come eventually, but not immediately, as there are some oustanding questions regarding the topic (e.g. whether a fixed font size/width are actually reasonable or whether these should scale in some way).

Sadly, this was not accounted for in the release notes and nobody updated the PR description since. The docs accurately reflect what is available and, eventually, this will be improved upon.

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@nealxm Something like this can be easily done, curious though as to how this would benefit you and how other things should behave then - should you still be able to scroll and how would you know where you are? It could be added, but would like to have some more insights first if possible.

[nealxm]

now that you mention it, removing the thumb is probably a pretty niche request. regarding how it would benefit me, I just like less interactive things on my screen. for context i'm someone who's disabled all buttons in the ui along with all scrollbars and tabs. regarding behavior, I would prefer the resulting behavior from disabling the thumb to be zero interaction with the minimap so no scrolling behavior.

[JacobCallahan]

@nealxm if you just want the thumb to be invisible, then you can set the opacity of your thumb's background color to 00 and it will effectively be hidden. This is what it looks like in my test theme (with a subtle outline kept to show the thumb position).

The setting here was

"minimap.thumb.background": "#66d9ff00",

and the full group of settings are these (you'll have to adjust the colors/opacity to your liking)

"minimap.thumb.active_background": "#66d9ff40",
"minimap.thumb.background": "#66d9ff10",
"minimap.thumb.border": "#66d9ff10",
"minimap.thumb.hover_background": "#66d9ff30",

[wzxu]

Still would love the option to render text as blocks. It's just clearer and offered by every other editor.

Had many upvotes in the original minimap issue too.

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[nt8r]

Not stale. I would also appreciate this functionality, as a mini-map that does not show the entirety of the file (the current scale seems to show about 400 lines on my setup) is not very useful for providing an overview of the file's structure or the position within it.