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See: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/238609. TL;DR: By uploading to latest electron32, pasting would not work anymore. This is a bug on the vscodium side present across versions, so downgrading electron32 is the only fix for now (downgrading this package will not help).

@MithicSpirit I just successfully rebuilt the latest submit this time using yay to automate the entire process. I selected cleanbuild and it now works as intended, at least on my computer.

@fredricocalamari I think that the only current issue is that the remote has a detached HEAD. The latest PKGBUILD seems to be working fine.

@Richardn huh that's weird. Good luck, both with git and with your studies.

I guess I am lucky that I was able to get the package to build on 4/9 right after @Richardn merged the xwayland fix to the repo. If you can roll back to that date and work from there I think you will have more luck fixing the issues others are having considering it worked for me. I had to clone the source and run makepkg. I didn't use yay. I have the fully functioning no-xwayland patched vscodium-electron installed already so I know there is a working configuration. We just need to track it down.

Actually when I first adopted the package I manually tested everything in a manually set up chroot and there was no problems. Probably because I was just being lucky at that time, files scattering in the working dir in a specific pattern that did not yield problems.

About "repository in this weird state": Now I am concerned. Yes, AUR git server was behaving strange yesterday when I made the update. When I git push as usual, the command line signals success all the way to "Writing objects...done", but then everything just hang on my side. I saw that on the webpage the "last updated" number indeed updated, while git was still hanging. I interrupted and tried several times, all the same. After I came back an hour later I saw that the changes are in place in "View Changes" so I be like "well...this means everything works in the end"?

I will look into this when I have the time (poor Computer Engineering student solving and plotting MOSFETs here).

Update: Oh I just tried git push origin master and my git did not hang this time. And cloning is successful.

@Richardn my "AUR helper" that is causing this is makechrootpkg, which is for building packages in a clean chroot (see the wiki). I've found this helpful for detecting issues in my (and sometimes other's) PKGBUILDs.

@ironveil this issue is because the current remote HEAD is a detached commit. Not sure what exactly happened to put the repository in this weird state, nor how to fix it. Maybe the maintainer can try pushing their master branch manually (git push origin master?).

The latest version doesn't build from yay, gives me this error:

:: (1/1) Downloaded PKGBUILD: vscodium-electron
 -> error merging /home/ironveil/.cache/yay/vscodium-electron: fatal: No current branch.

Fixed along with update to 1.88.1.24102. Your AUR helper has its own ideas on where to put $srcdir or where to execute build commands, but yeah, I should not have used ../../.

Doesn't build for me currently. This patch fixes it:

diff --git a/PKGBUILD b/PKGBUILD
index 6cc87a7..6bdaba5 100644
--- a/PKGBUILD
+++ b/PKGBUILD
@@ -91,13 +91,13 @@ prepare() {
    # Remove old build
    if [ -d vscode ]; then
        rm -rf vscode VSCode*
    fi

    # Mangle original vscodium build script to build against system electron
-   patch -u build.sh -i ../../vscodium-electron.patch
+   patch -u build.sh -i "$srcdir/vscodium-electron.patch"
 }

 build() {
    _ensure_local_nvm
    nvm install "${_nodejs}"
    nvm use "${_nodejs}"

I can confirm that the Wayland patch by backbord works and xwayland is no longer starting when launching vscodium. The PKGBUILD built successfully. Congratulations to all involved in finally tracking this issue down. This is the holy grail for us wayland users. Since this version is essentially the only correct way of launching vscode in Wayland, and since Wayland is the default on so many distros now, everyone who uses Wayland should switch to using this vscodium-electron build and stop using the vanilla vscodium variant as it offers nothing extra.