Framework laptop, set VSCode to default Wayland use such that fractional scaling looks good

[frederikb96]

Describe the bug

I have a fresh bluefin on my framework 13 laptop. I start vscode and it looks blurry. I checked web for the issue and found this closed one here: #1362
I followed the workaround to set ELECTRON_OZONE_PLATFORM_HINT=auto and then it works.

My request would be to set this out of the box for Framework laptops such that users dont have to check the web to find this issue and apply the workaround themselfes. Thanks :)

What did you expect to happen?

On fresh framework laptop, a non blurry VS Code :)

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[zackify]

yeah vs code is unusable for me on fw13 with 150% scale, 125% its still bad

I think all thats needed is:

Exec=/usr/share/code/code --ozone-platform=wayland %F

to the code.desktop file at build time, feel like i almost know enough from bluebuild to make a pr

[castrojo]

Yeah we could override the code.desktop but we're hesitant to do this per app since there's almost always some unintended consequence or config that users might be doing.

For now we recommend copying /usr/share/applications/code.desktop into ~.local/share/applications and then making the change in that file and then that'll sort it.

[zackify]

we should add this to the vs code docs or framework section

[castrojo]

This should also be solved by F41, which is about to go to beta, and then maybe we recommend :stable for framework from then on? Or someone does a PR, whichever comes first I guess, hah.

[frederikb96]

Stumbled across this again, since VS Code is now working for the first time very nicely with Wayland support enabled, thanks to this issue being solved, where pane moving was not possible yet due to upstream Electron problem: microsoft/vscode#156723

This also fixed pane movement for Obsidian and Wayland. So from now on, I started to use fractional scaling, and it is wonderful :D

I also wrote a small Ansible script to apply it to VSCode directly so dont have to do it manually for my maschines, especially when desktop launcher updates due to VSCode update :) https://github.com/frederikb96/vscode-wayland-support-enable-desktop-file

[nickdiego]

FWIW, at Chromium side, we've worked recently on proper fractional scaling support (addressing the blurriness issues reported) which started landing since Chromium M128, behind the WaylandPerSurfaceScale feature flag. The work was tracked at [1] (further technical details at [2]). I'm not sure when/if it's properly plumbed in electron/vscode though.

• [1] https://issues.chromium.org/issues/336007385
• [2] https://notes.nickdiego.dev/chromium/proposal/wayland-per-window-scaling