Package Details: visual-studio-code-bin 1.96.4-1

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: 1482
Popularity: 16.32
First Submitted: 2017-12-18 19:14 (UTC)
Last Updated: 2025-01-17 07:47 (UTC)

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

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS (read before flagging or commenting!)

  • What is the difference between this package and the one in the community repo?

This is the official binary distribution from Microsoft. The one in the community repo is an unofficial build made from source. Beyond the license difference and branding, there are some proprietary features not available in the open source version.

  • There is a new version out, why is the package not updated?

Please check this page before flagging as out-of-date. If there is no new version on that page, it's not yet released. A tag on Github is NOT a release! If you can see the new version on the updates page but the AUR package is still not updated, flag it and give it time. It's usually done within a day or two.

  • I'm using an AUR helper (yay, yaourt etc.) and I can't install it. Why?

Sometimes AUR helpers do weird things. Download the tarball and install it manually with makepkg -si. If that works, report the problem to your AUR helper's upstream, not here.

  • 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.

  • Why is $X a dependency? I don't like it.

Just because $X is not required to open the app, doesn't mean there is nothing that depends on it. Always search the comment history on AUR to see if that dependency has been previously discussed before writing your own comment. Still nothing? Then use namcap to make sure it's really not needed. If namcap doesn't complain, please leave a comment here and I'll investigate.

  • Something is broken with the app, where do I report it?

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  • I have a problem with this package, can I email you?

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oconnor663 commented on 2017-08-04 22:27 (UTC)

I've noticed that when I start VSCode from my Activities menu under gnome-shell, it seems to drop out of the Alt-Tab menu. I can Alt-Tab away, but when I try to Alt-Tab back it's not available anymore. (Though the window is still visible and working, and clicking on it to focus works fine.) This problem goes away if I start the app as `code` in my terminal -- if I do that, Alt-Tab afterwards always works. It also works if I delete the StartupWMClass line from the .desktop file, and then start it the gnome-shell way. In fact, even *editing* that line to use a class name other than "code" seems to fix the problem! Is there something particularly buggy about `StartupWMClass=code`?

dcelasun commented on 2017-08-04 19:10 (UTC)

@vesath: Done.

vesath commented on 2017-08-04 18:47 (UTC)

Please use sha256sums instead of md5sum, since that is the type of checksum that upstream provides.

xaver commented on 2017-07-19 10:21 (UTC)

@Jristz: In addition to what dcelasun just wrote: In fact the visual-studio-code-oss package is wrongly named since the name of the open source product is not "Visual Studio Code" but rather just "vscode". Microsoft do not allow the Visual Studio branding to be used on any other distribution of vscode but their own (cf https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/pull/2983#issuecomment-183547642). Somewhat comparable to the properly named Google Chrome and Chromium (and not google-chrome for Chromium and google-chrome-bin for the actual Google Chrome), it should be visual-studio-code for the EULA'd version and vscode for the MIT licenced OSS version.

dcelasun commented on 2017-07-19 05:36 (UTC)

@Jristz: Please read the comment history of both packages. The names are like that because the software wasn't open source when it was first released, and by the time Microsoft decided to release it as OSS, this package had already a lot of traction (it's in the top 3 most popular packages on AUR) and it wasn't considered worthwhile to break people's updates for purity reasons. For more details, read the comments.

<deleted-account> commented on 2017-07-19 05:29 (UTC)

This is a binary, right? then it should be named visual-studio-code-bin to follow the common name scheme used on aur, if you aren't sure asl on aur-general. also the visual-studio-code-oss is using the sources so to also follow the correct name it should be just visual-studio-code. what a mess those two packages.

xaver commented on 2017-06-20 07:53 (UTC)

This is still an open issue: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/26036 You can add the parameters to the startup script /opt/visual-studio-code/bin/code, but this is not a stable solution since you have to do this again for every update.

hendry commented on 2017-06-20 03:30 (UTC)

Thank you xaver! code --high-dpi-support=true --force-device-scale-factor=1.5 # works great! But how do I save this preference in a config?

xaver commented on 2017-06-19 08:49 (UTC)

Have you tried `code --high-dpi-support=true --force-device-scale-factor=2`?

hendry commented on 2017-06-19 08:26 (UTC)

How do I get the font size bigger in the menu? https://s.natalian.org/2017-06-19/1497860639_2558x1406.png

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