Flatpak VSCodium

This is an Unofficial Flatpak version of VSCodium

Issues

Please open issues under: https://github.com/flathub/com.vscodium.codium/issues

FAQ

This version is running inside a container and is therefore not able to access SDKs on your host system!

To execute commands on the host system, run inside the sandbox:

  $ flatpak-spawn --host <COMMAND>

Host Shell

To make the Integrated Terminal automatically use the host system's shell, you can add this to the settings of vscodium:

  {
    "terminal.integrated.defaultProfile.linux": "bash",
    "terminal.integrated.profiles.linux": {
        "bash": {
          "path": "/usr/bin/flatpak-spawn",
          "args": ["--host", "--env=TERM=xterm-256color", "bash"]
        }
    },
  }

SDKs

This flatpak provides a standard development environment (gcc, python, etc). To see what's available:

  $ flatpak run --command=sh com.vscodium.codium
  $ ls /usr/bin (shared runtime)
  $ ls /app/bin (bundled with this flatpak)

To get support for additional languages, you have to install SDK extensions, e.g.

  $ flatpak install flathub org.freedesktop.Sdk.Extension.dotnet
  $ flatpak install flathub org.freedesktop.Sdk.Extension.golang
  $ FLATPAK_ENABLE_SDK_EXT=dotnet,golang flatpak run com.vscodium.codium

You can use

  $ flatpak search <TEXT>

to find others.

Run flatpak codium from host terminal

If you want to run codium /path/to/file from the host terminal just add this to your shell's rc file

alias codium="flatpak run com.vscodium.codium --no-sandbox "

then reload sources, now you could try:

$ codium /path/to/
# or
$ FLATPAK_ENABLE_SDK_EXT=dotnet,golang codium /path/to/

Enable experimental native Wayland mode

You can temporarily run VSCodium in experimental native Wayland mode with:

flatpak run com.vscodium.codium --no-sandbox --enable-features=UseOzonePlatform --ozone-platform=wayland

Native Wayland can improve: HiDPI support, rendering performance, kinetic scrolling, touch support and also avoids needing xwayland. See VSCode issue. These flags are from Chromium and Electron, which currently consider native Wayland support experimental and opt-in. See Electron issue.

Note window decorations will currently be missing on GNOME/Mutter. See this potential fix.

Deprecation of arm(32bits) builds

armhf/armv7 builds have their particular branch named armv7 and will be deprecated on 2021 due to the org.freedesktop.Sdk versions >= 20.08 disable armv7 builds. You can follow the discusion here.

This particular branch is based on org.freedesktop.Sdk == 19.08 that be supported until 2021, you can read more about it here.

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