Package Details: visual-studio-code-bin 1.124.0-1

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: 1680
Popularity: 32.29
First Submitted: 2017-12-18 19:14 (UTC)
Last Updated: 2026-06-10 11:00 (UTC)

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

This package depends on the official tarball. Please check this page before flagging as out-of-date. If the new version isn't on that page, this package cannot be updated! If you can see the new version there, but the AUR package is still not updated, flag it and give it time. It's usually done within hours.

  • 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 gnome-session which now includes mimemapps.

  • 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.

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huntergunter89 commented on 2026-06-09 12:11 (UTC)

@pierrec thanks it worked! Hope a new update will correct that

dcelasun commented on 2026-06-09 09:16 (UTC)

@pierrec thanks for that! Here's a reddit thread with details.

pierrec commented on 2026-06-09 08:40 (UTC)

@huntergunter89 @dcelasun fontconfig bug, downgrade to fontconfig 2.17

dcelasun commented on 2026-06-09 07:43 (UTC)

@huntergunter89 I'm seeing a similar fonts issue with the google-chrome package, which started with Gnome 50.1. I'm not sure if it's a bug with Gnome, Blink/Electron, or fontconfig.

huntergunter89 commented on 2026-06-08 15:56 (UTC) (edited on 2026-06-08 15:56 (UTC) by huntergunter89)

Since version 1.123.0-4, the fonts are supposed to be used "'DejaVu Sans Mono', monospace" is not working, even with other fonts, it always use Times New Roman. I have to cheat with Custom CSS and JS to apply a custom font otherwise my entire interface is Times New roman which is not very readable...

I have Gnome 50

dcelasun commented on 2026-06-08 09:04 (UTC)

When switching to local resources in 1.123.0, I used local:// URIs and a few people were confused about that as it's not very common on AUR.

makepkg uses a function, get_protocol to extract protocols from source=() entries. It defaults to local so in a PKGBUILD source=(foo) and source=(local://foo) are exactly the same.

We're back to not committing resource files now, but if you see local:// elsewhere, know that it's officially supported :)

syriusz commented on 2026-06-08 08:33 (UTC)

@SuperNinja_4965

I had the same issue - it was resolved after a reboot.

I reboot after each update :-) but it did not help in my case. Anyway - thanks for advice.

@the-k

do you perhaps have code.desktop and/or code-url-handler.desktop files in ~/.local/share/applications?

Yes! code.desktop is there. And I guess this is custom .desktop file which was created when I wanted to set some extra env variable for code, thus it cannot be automatically updated on package icon update.

@dcelasun thank you for providing a path to new Code icon - when I set this in Menu Editor - everything is fine now.

I could find out this path location by just listing all the files in this package, but I thought it was some issue in this update.

Thank you all for help :-)

SuperNinja_4965 commented on 2026-06-08 08:24 (UTC)

@syriusz I had the same issue - it was resolved after a reboot.

the-k commented on 2026-06-08 08:23 (UTC) (edited on 2026-06-08 08:24 (UTC) by the-k)

@syriusz, do you perhaps have code.desktop and/or code-url-handler.desktop files in ~/.local/share/applications? If so, then they may need updating. Also, as @dcelasun said, try clearing the icon cache. Let us know whether it helped.

dcelasun commented on 2026-06-08 08:11 (UTC)

So I guess I can try to point to the new icon, but after update of this package its difficult to find out, where it is.

I first thought maybe it pointed to the wrong icon, but it looks correct. The desktop file has Icon=vscode and the icon itself is at /usr/share/pixmaps/vscode.png which is the correct place.

Perhaps it's an icon cache issue on your end? I don't know anything about KDE.

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