Package Details: visual-studio-code-bin 1.99.3-1

Git Clone URL: https://aur.archlinux.org/visual-studio-code-bin.git (read-only, click to copy)
Package Base: visual-studio-code-bin
Description: Visual Studio Code (vscode): Editor for building and debugging modern web and cloud applications (official binary version)
Upstream URL: https://code.visualstudio.com/
Licenses: custom: commercial
Conflicts: code
Provides: code, vscode
Submitter: dcelasun
Maintainer: dcelasun
Last Packager: dcelasun
Votes: 1513
Popularity: 16.50
First Submitted: 2017-12-18 19:14 (UTC)
Last Updated: 2025-04-17 07:24 (UTC)

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dcelasun commented on 2017-11-15 06:20 (UTC) (edited on 2020-02-06 21:33 (UTC) by dcelasun)

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  • When I install this package xdg-open uses vscode, not my file manager! How do I fix this?

Install shared-mime-info-gnome. Also see this reddit thread.

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Anty0 commented on 2018-12-15 16:34 (UTC)

@dcelasun I agree with @jgierer12.

I haven't been using VS Code for a long time, so my advice for @nix6839 was more in general manner, but after looking into it more I don't think this is upstream issue.

jgierer12 commented on 2018-12-15 16:22 (UTC)

Hi @dcelasun, I don't think this is an upstream issue. The PR you linked removed the StartupWMClass from visual-studio-code-url-handler.desktop, but not from visual-studio-code.desktop. I'm having the same issue as @nix6839 and was also able to fix it by re-adding StartupWMClass=code into the latter file.

nix6839 commented on 2018-12-15 14:45 (UTC)

@Anty0 I'm not fixed that way either.

nix6839 commented on 2018-12-15 14:44 (UTC) (edited on 2018-12-16 14:03 (UTC) by nix6839)

@dcelasun I hope to put it in visual-studio-code.desktop. (Ref to https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/blob/master/resources/linux/code.desktop and https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/visual-studio-code.desktop?h=visual-studio-code-bin)

Anty0 commented on 2018-12-15 11:20 (UTC)

@nix6839 Try re-add (remove it and add it again) VS Code to your favorites. You probably have added wrong one (the one which was starting before fix).

dcelasun commented on 2018-12-15 08:33 (UTC)

@nix6839, since that was done on purpose, you should report it upstream.

nix6839 commented on 2018-12-15 04:07 (UTC)

Please re-add "StartupWMClass". Without it, an error occurs. The error is as follows the dock contains multiple copies of the same icon.

dcelasun commented on 2018-12-14 16:55 (UTC)

@teohhanhui, thanks for the heads up. This should be working now, e.g xdg-open vscode://file/etc/pacman.conf or xdg-open vscode-insiders://file/etc/pacman.conf for the insiders build.

teohhanhui commented on 2018-12-14 16:29 (UTC)

Please add the code-url-handler.desktop file (visual-studio-code-url-handler.desktop in our case) to support vscode:// URIs. See https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/pull/56727 and https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/pull/63750

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