Package Details: visual-studio-code-bin 1.129.1-1

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: 1694
Popularity: 25.92
First Submitted: 2017-12-18 19:14 (UTC)
Last Updated: 2026-07-18 05:35 (UTC)

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dcelasun commented on 2017-11-15 06:20 (UTC) (edited on 2026-06-04 12:33 (UTC) by dcelasun)

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  • 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 licence difference and branding, there are some proprietary features not available in the open-source version.

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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 gnome-session which now includes mimemapps.

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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

dcelasun commented on 2017-05-19 20:47 (UTC)

@NicoHood: Please read what I wrote, a few comments down from yours. Basically, you are looking for this [0]. [0] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/visual-studio-code-oss

NicoHood commented on 2017-05-19 20:43 (UTC)

I might be wrong, but isnt this package open source as MIT license? https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode Why dont you build from source instead?

bam365 commented on 2017-05-16 01:43 (UTC) (edited on 2017-05-16 01:56 (UTC) by bam365)

This will change again before very long, but as of 2017-05-15 the current version is 1.12.2. This won't build unless in PKGBUILD you change md5sums_x86_64 to: md5sums_x86_64=('aca84ee07b151ef4731d1516368f268a' 'b5d0d40f5f22b4efb0b3d05c287f8704') I would think a better solution though would be to download a specific version of VS Code as opposed to the latest. That way the PKGBUILD will at least work instead of giving an MD5 error, although it will build an out-of-date version. To do that, change source_x86_64 to: source_x86_64=(code_x64_${pkgver}.tar.gz::https://vscode-update.azurewebsites.net/${pkgver}/linux-x64/stable ${pkgname}.desktop )

vith commented on 2017-05-15 22:51 (UTC)

Shouldn't this package have a -bin suffix then? https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Nonfree_applications_package_guidelines#Package_naming

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