How do I suppress the "Welcome" Explorer window?

[ntimko1 (Nick Timkovich)]

• Operating system: macOS 14.4.1
• SonarLint plugin version: 4.4.2
• Programming language you’re coding in: N/A
• Is connected mode used: Yes
  • Connected to SonarCloud or SonarQube (and which version): SonarQube

On every launch of VSCode, the explorer window is initially taken over by SonarLint with the title “Explorer: SonarLint Issue Locations” and content “No locations to show.” This happens even when opening a repo of text files or SVGs.

The specific string for the content seems to come from sonarlint-vscode/package.json at 8345b8f38d09a7c7240abce56f16cfb3be2d077c · SonarSource/sonarlint-vscode · GitHub which is maybe pulled here sonarlint-vscode/src/extension.ts at 8345b8f38d09a7c7240abce56f16cfb3be2d077c · SonarSource/sonarlint-vscode · GitHub to do something with (not a JS dev, unfamiliar with the VSCode plugin system, so don’t know how to trace).

I removed all sonarlint. settings from my settings.json, and it still appears on launch. It feels like a strange phantom, because there are two explorer file icons (two pages of paper overlapping) in the sidebar, and when I click the highlighted one it collapses the “Explorer: SonarLint…” side-view and removes the duplicate icon. Clicking the icon again, or probably the real Explorer icon that’s now moved up, re-opens the file explorer.

[sophio.japharidze]

Hi there!

This is not the default behaviour registered by SonarLint. What might have happened is that you accidentally moved the SonarLint Issue Locations view to a different location, as described in the GIF below. You can again take the view and drag it to the correct location under the “true” explorer view.

Hope that helps!
Sophio