Hard to drag window

Type: Bug

With so much UX in the title bar it can be hard to find a draggable region to move the window around.

Suggestion: have drags in the "search" area of the titlebar allow the window to be repositioned.

VS Code version: Code 1.130.0 (1b6a188127eeaf9194f945eb6eb89a657e93c54c, 2026-07-22T14:55:04Z)
OS version: Windows_NT x64 10.0.26200
Modes:

System Info

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GPU1: VENDOR= 0x1414, DEVICE=0x008c [Microsoft Basic Render Driver], DRIVER_VERSION=10.0.26100.8875
Machine model name:
Machine model version:
direct_rendering_display_compositor: disabled_off_ok
gpu_compositing: enabled
multiple_raster_threads: enabled_on
opengl: enabled_on
rasterization: enabled
raw_draw: disabled_off_ok
skia_graphite: disabled_off
trees_in_viz: disabled_off
video_decode: enabled
video_encode: enabled
webgl: enabled
webgpu: enabled
webnn: disabled_off|
|Load (avg)|undefined|
|Memory (System)|127.46GB (85.36GB free)|
|Process Argv|--crash-reporter-id 418aa359-859f-4a57-86b4-3066fa5cd540|
|Screen Reader|no|
|VM|0%|
Extensions (2)

Name|Identifier|Author|Version
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clangd|llvm-vs-code-extensions.vscode-clangd|llvm-vs-code-extensions|0.6.0
MicrosoftAI AI Telemetry|mai-engineeringsystems.mai-ai-telemetry|MAI-EngineeringSystems|1.20260730.1

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