You can move the integrated terminal to the side, but afaik not out of the main window. You can create tasks for vscode by creating .vscode/tasks.json, but assigning hotkeys to them is super unintuitive because you need to assign the hotkey the label of the task to trigger. The command for it is “workbench.action.tasks.runTask”.

{
	// See https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=733558
	// for the documentation about the tasks.json format
	"version": "2.0.0",
  "tasks": [
    {
      "label": "Run build",
      "type": "shell",
      "command": "mix compile",
      "group": {
        "kind": "build",
        "isDefault": true
      },
      "presentation": {
        "reveal": "always",
        "panel": "dedicated",
        "focus": true
      },
      "problemMatcher": [
        "$mixCompileError",
        "$mixCompileWarning"
      ]
    },
    {
      "label": "Run tests",
      "type": "shell",
      "command": "mix test",
      "group": {
        "kind": "test",
        "isDefault": true
      },
      "presentation": {
        "reveal": "always",
        "panel": "shared",
        "focus": true
      },
      "problemMatcher": [
        "$mixCompileError",
        "$mixCompileWarning",
        "$mixTestFailure"
      ]
    },
    {
      "label": "Run stale tests",
      "type": "shell",
      "command": "mix test --stale",
      "group": "test",
      "presentation": {
        "reveal": "always",
        "panel": "shared",
        "focus": true
      },
      "problemMatcher": [
        "$mixCompileError",
        "$mixCompileWarning",
        "$mixTestFailure"
      ]
    },
    {
      "label": "Run tests (current file)",
      "type": "shell",
      "command": "mix test ${relativeFile}",
      "group": "test",
      "presentation": {
        "reveal": "always",
        "panel": "shared",
        "focus": true
      },
      "problemMatcher": [
        "$mixCompileError",
        "$mixCompileWarning",
        "$mixTestFailure"
      ]
    },
    {
      "label": "Run tests (current test)",
      "type": "shell",
      "command": "mix test ${relativeFile}:${lineNumber}",
      "group": "test",
      "presentation": {
        "reveal": "always",
        "panel": "shared",
        "focus": true
      },
      "problemMatcher": [
        "$mixCompileError",
        "$mixCompileWarning",
        "$mixTestFailure"
      ]
    },
    {
      "label": "Run coverage",
      "type": "shell",
      "command": "mix coveralls.html",
      "group": "test",
      "presentation": {
        "reveal": "always",
        "panel": "shared",
        "focus": true
      },
      "problemMatcher": [
        "$mixCompileError",
        "$mixCompileWarning",
        "$mixTestFailure"
      ]
    },
    {
      "label": "Run coverage (current file)",
      "type": "shell",
      "command": "mix coveralls.html ${relativeFile}",
      "group": "test",
      "presentation": {
        "reveal": "always",
        "panel": "shared",
        "focus": true
      },
      "problemMatcher": [
        "$mixCompileError",
        "$mixCompileWarning",
        "$mixTestFailure"
      ]
    },
    {
      "label": "Generate documentation",
      "type": "shell",
      "command": "mix docs",
      "group": "none",
      "presentation": {
        "reveal": "always",
        "panel": "dedicated",
        "focus": true
      },
      "problemMatcher": [
        "$mixCompileError",
        "$mixCompileWarning"
      ]
    },
    {
      "label": "Format project",
      "type": "shell",
      "command": "mix format",
      "group": "none",
      "presentation": {
        "reveal": "never",
        "panel": "dedicated"
      },
      "problemMatcher": [
        "$mixCompileError",
        "$mixCompileWarning"
      ]
    },
    {
      "label": "Format file",
      "type": "shell",
      "command": "mix format ${relativeFile}",
      "group": "none",
      "presentation": {
        "reveal": "never",
        "panel": "dedicated"
      },
      "problemMatcher": [
        "$mixCompileError",
        "$mixCompileWarning"
      ]
    }
  ]
}

I got a car pooling ride and drove to my office to take my 32’’ screen home (making sure to maintain social distancing in the process, let’s all do our part ). I had never realized how huge this screen is until I placed it on my small desk at home

Because of similar issues (not as painful as yours though) my boss agreed to send me one of my offices screens, he refused though that I take it with me in the train .

Should be here tomorrow.

Perhaps you can ask your boss for similar as well, or if they try to rent a bigger screen short-term, perhaps even split cost?