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• Completely rewritten patch with correct implementation of transparency for electron window!
• It actually running from compiled binaries! No need for electron dependency!
• No conflicting with official release! You can have installed both!
• Added support for official marketplace!
• Added support for flags configuration file!
• Added support for Wayland!
• Unblocked proprietary features!

How to change window color?

"workbench.colorCustomizations": {
    //Black window color with 75% transparency (#RRGGBBAA)
    "window.background": "#000000BF"
},

..assuming you have a customized theme with all other transparent elements!

Building within clean chroot!

You can build package in completely clean environment without conflicting with any local dependencies (latest nodejs package etc..)!

Execute the following commands inside the package directory:

yes | sudo pacman -S devtools
extra-x86_64-build -c && rm *.log
mapfile -t _pkgs <<< "$(printf '%s\n' code-translucent-*.pkg.tar.zst | sort -Vr)"
sudo pacman -U "${_pkgs[0]}"

..or just run "build-with-chroot.sh" script!

According to the node documentation, this doesn't matter...

https://nodejs.org/api/cli.html#options

All options, including V8 options, allow words to be separated by both dashes (-) or underscores (_). For example, --pending-deprecation is equivalent to --pending_deprecation.

I will update the pkg anyway. Thanks!

EDIT:

I can confirm. On rig with 16GB ram, build process is killed by system! If someone have any clue how to address/fix that, let me know...

Noticed that the PKGBUILD contains an incorrect npm flag: --max_old_space_size=8192 while the correct flag should be --max-old-space-size=8192 (note the hyphens). The current flag causes issues during the build process on low RAM setups

"Starting compilation..." stage takes forever, does anybody know how to fix this? UPD: After waiting for 30 minutes, it finally installed. But adding

" "workbench.colorCustomizations": { //Black window color with 75% transparency (#RRGGBBAA) "window.background": "#000000BF" },"

to settings.json does nothing. Also pressing "File" button makes code crash, but that's Microsoft's problem, I guess.

Yes. For building is nodejs-lts-iron (>=20.x) required! You can replace it later with nodjs (v22) or simply build it with "build-with-chroot.sh" script.

Hi, is nodejs-lts-iron required compared to just normal nodejs?

Could not install package because of conflict: "nodejs-lts-hydrogen-18.20.3-1 and nodejs-22.2.0-1 are in conflict"

Guys and girls! Patch is experimental! If there are any problems let me know!

@observ33r I've tried it again, without flags it seems to work, but with flags it is still crashing. I'm pretty sure that my GPU configuration is working.

BTW, Use proprietary vscode (1.86.0-insider) with code-insiders --enable-gl --enable-transparent-visuals --enable-features=UseOzonePlatform,WaylandWindowDecorations --ozone-platform=wayland did not crash. There could be a fix available in the upstream.

@Flysoft: Can't reproduce! Also NVIDIA/wayland/X11 user. First try run directly from terminal without flags "/opt/code-translucent/bin/code-oss" then with wayland flags "/opt/code-translucent/bin/code-oss --enable-features=UseOzonePlatform,WaylandWindowDecorations --ozone-platform=wayland" if it helps. But this is definitely not a packaging problem. Are you sure you have correctly configuired GPU?

Hello, I'm getting stuck when starting this on Wayland with a NVIDIA GPU. note: also tried x11 but still no luck here :(

[60986:0115/223949.705983:WARNING:wayland_object.cc(157)] Binding to zwp_linux_dmabuf_v1 version 3 but version 4 is available.
[60986:0115/223949.706067:WARNING:wayland_object.cc(157)] Binding to zwp_pointer_gestures_v1 version 1 but version 3 is available.
[61031:0115/223949.796723:ERROR:gl_factory.cc(120)] Requested GL implementation (gl=none,angle=none) not found in allowed implementations: [(gl=egl-angle,angle=opengl),(gl=egl-angle,angle=opengles),(gl=egl-gles2,angle=none),(gl=egl-angle,angle=swiftshader)].
[61031:0115/223949.797599:ERROR:viz_main_impl.cc(186)] Exiting GPU process due to errors during initialization
[60986:0115/223949.797745:WARNING:bluez_dbus_manager.cc(247)] Floss manager not present, cannot set Floss enable/disable.
[61039:0115/223949.836907:WARNING:sandbox_linux.cc(393)] InitializeSandbox() called with multiple threads in process gpu-process.
[main 2024-01-15T14:39:49.843Z] [File Watcher (node.js)] Request to start watching: /home/flysoft/.config/Code - OSS/User (excludes: <none>, includes: <all>, correlationId: <none>),/home/flysoft/.config/Code - OSS/User/settings.json (excludes: <none>, includes: <all>, correlationId: <none>)
[main 2024-01-15T14:39:49.853Z] Starting VS Code
[main 2024-01-15T14:39:49.853Z] from: /opt/code-translucent/resources/app
[main 2024-01-15T14:39:49.853Z] args: {
  _: [],
  diff: false,
  merge: false,
  add: false,
  goto: false,
  'new-window': false,
  'reuse-window': false,
  wait: false,
  help: false,
  'list-extensions': false,
  'show-versions': false,
  'pre-release': false,
  version: false,
  verbose: true,
  status: false,
  'prof-startup': false,
  'no-cached-data': false,
  'prof-v8-extensions': false,
  'disable-extensions': false,
  'disable-gpu': false,
  'disable-chromium-sandbox': false,
  'ms-enable-electron-run-as-node': true,
  telemetry: false,
  debugRenderer: false,
  'enable-smoke-test-driver': false,
  logExtensionHostCommunication: false,
  'skip-release-notes': false,
  'skip-welcome': false,
  'disable-telemetry': false,
  'disable-updates': false,
  'use-inmemory-secretstorage': false,
  'disable-workspace-trust': false,
  'disable-crash-reporter': false,
  'crash-reporter-id': '9d6a277e-67c7-4600-9f03-2752af55fa31',
  'skip-add-to-recently-opened': false,
  'unity-launch': false,
  'open-url': false,
  'file-write': false,
  'file-chmod': false,
  force: false,
  'do-not-sync': false,
  trace: false,
  'force-user-env': false,
  'force-disable-user-env': false,
  'open-devtools': false,
  'disable-gpu-sandbox': false,
  '__enable-file-policy': false,
  'enable-coi': false,
  'no-proxy-server': false,
  'no-sandbox': false,
  nolazy: false,
  'force-renderer-accessibility': false,
  'ignore-certificate-errors': false,
  'allow-insecure-localhost': false,
  'disable-dev-shm-usage': false,
  'profile-temp': false,
  logsPath: '/home/flysoft/.config/Code - OSS/logs/20240115T223949'
}
[main 2024-01-15T14:39:49.854Z] Resolving machine identifier...
[main 2024-01-15T14:39:49.854Z] Resolved machine identifier: 122e2b038a4861031f99a912b7cd75f80d49d8fe53aa0e32cff0ed6277dee3effile-chmod': false,
[main 2024-01-15T14:39:49.854Z] Main->SharedProcess#connect
[main 2024-01-15T14:39:49.856Z] [File Watcher (node.js)] Started watching: '/home/flysoft/.config/Code - OSS/User'
[main 2024-01-15T14:39:49.857Z] [File Watcher (node.js)] Started watching: '/home/flysoft/.config/Code - OSS/User/settings.json'
[main 2024-01-15T14:39:49.857Z] StorageMainService: creating application storage
[main 2024-01-15T14:39:49.859Z] ElectronURLListener: waiting for window to be ready to handle URLs...
[main 2024-01-15T14:39:49.859Z] lifecycle (main): phase changed (value: 2)
[main 2024-01-15T14:39:49.859Z] windowsManager#open
[main 2024-01-15T14:39:49.859Z] windowsManager#open pathsToOpen [
  {
    backupPath: '/home/flysoft/.config/Code - OSS/Backups/1705204211198',
    remoteAuthority: undefined
  }
]
[main 2024-01-15T14:39:49.859Z] windowsManager#doOpenEmpty {
  restore: true,
  remoteAuthority: undefined,
  filesToOpen: undefined,
  forceNewWindow: true
}
[main 2024-01-15T14:39:49.860Z] IPC Object URL: Registered new channel vscode:4bcfe7c5-ab9e-42e3-bfc7-c89f035a405f.
[main 2024-01-15T14:39:49.860Z] window#validateWindowState: validating window state on 1 display(s) { mode: 0, x: 33, y: 1144, width: 1876, height: 982 }
[main 2024-01-15T14:39:49.860Z] window#validateWindowState: 1 monitor working area { x: 0, y: 0, width: 2560, height: 1440 }
[main 2024-01-15T14:39:49.860Z] window#ctor: using window state { mode: 0, x: 33, y: 1144, width: 1876, height: 982 }
[60986:0115/223949.867956:WARNING:wayland_surface.cc(165)] Server doesn't support zcr_alpha_compositing_v1.
[60986:0115/223949.867966:WARNING:wayland_surface.cc(180)] Server doesn't support overlay_prioritizer.
[60986:0115/223949.867969:WARNING:wayland_surface.cc(194)] Server doesn't support surface_augmenter.
[60986:0115/223949.867971:WARNING:wayland_surface.cc(209)] Server doesn't support wp_content_type_v1
[60986:0115/223949.867973:WARNING:wayland_surface.cc(228)] Server doesn't support zcr_color_management_surface.
[60986:0115/223949.868129:WARNING:cursor_loader.cc(136)] Failed to load a platform cursor of type kNull
[main 2024-01-15T14:39:49.875Z] window#load: attempt to load window (id: 1)
[main 2024-01-15T14:39:49.878Z] windowsManager#open used window count 1 (workspacesToOpen: 0, foldersToOpen: 0, emptyToRestore: 1, emptyToOpen: 0)
[main 2024-01-15T14:39:49.878Z] lifecycle (main): phase changed (value: 3)
[main 2024-01-15T14:39:49.878Z] resolveShellEnv(): skipped (VSCODE_CLI is set)
[main 2024-01-15T14:39:49.878Z] update#setState idle
[main 2024-01-15T14:39:49.901Z] resolveShellEnv(): skipped (VSCODE_CLI is set)
[0115/223949.929960:ERROR:elf_dynamic_array_reader.h(64)] tag not found
[0115/223949.935169:ERROR:directory_reader_posix.cc(42)] opendir /home/flysoft/.config/Code - OSS/Crashpad/attachments/df156635-56be-4bda-af13-140f9616664d: No such file or directory (2)
[0115/223949.938105:ERROR:http_transport_libcurl.cc(470)] curl_easy_perform: Unsupported protocol (1)