Automatically hide terminal panel when a file in the explorer is clicked

At the moment I’m using my panels maximized always with "workbench.panel.opensMaximized": "always", in my settings because I’d like to use my Terminal at full height all the time.

I’m using the following keyboard shortcut to toggle the terminal window:

    {
        "key": "cmd+e",
        "command": "workbench.action.terminal.toggleTerminal"
    },

The problem now exists that if I click a file in the explorer, the terminal doesn’t go away but actually resizes only a bit or half-screen (depends from time to time). See the behavior in the video below:

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/594614/130325753-78d4e905-7b03-44bb-887a-5ed6fd66938e.mov

Ideally I wish that the terminal would close when I click on a file in the explorer since the action to open up a file should bring that file up full screen.

To summarize: I never want to use my terminal half-screen.

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