Disable right-side panel on codex macOS app

Open 💬 6 comments Opened Apr 11, 2026 by nooblyf

💡 Likely answer: A maintainer (github-actions[bot], contributor) responded on this thread — see the highlighted reply below.

What version of the Codex App are you using (From “About Codex” dialog)?

Version 26.409.20454 (1462)

What subscription do you have?

Plus

What platform is your computer?

Darwin 25.3.0 arm64 arm

What issue are you seeing?

Hyperlinks to codeblocks now open in the codex sidebar instead of vscode. How do i get rid of this, i don't want it to open in the sidebar.

What steps can reproduce the bug?

Open repo
Ask codex to list a file hyperlink
It will open in the codex sidebar instead of vscode like before

What is the expected behavior?

It should open in the configured editor.

Additional information

I have disabled the automatic updates now.

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6 Comments

github-actions[bot] contributor · 3 months ago

Potential duplicates detected. Please review them and close your issue if it is a duplicate.

#17017
#16148
#16520

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chenyukang · 3 months ago

definitely want this.

nooblyf · 3 months ago

Any updates on this?

The right sidebar only gets in the way and it is so annoying. Maybe a setting to disable the right sidebar entirely?

florisdg · 3 months ago

Same here, last friday it still opened in my IDE of choice. Now it only opens in the sidebar. The 'Default open destination' setting in General settings doesn't seem to be respected anymore either.

Also, this might be a dupe of #17526

thomasdrouin · 3 months ago

Same here! Please fix this!

nooblyf · 3 months ago

I created a repository for automated daily release snapshots so that we have an option to downgrade in the future

https://github.com/nooblyf/codex-releases