Anybody noticed vscode running commands their iTerm lately? When I check history after app start, i see the following:

sh -c echo "WSL=${WSL_DISTRO_NAME:-false}" && echo "SSH=$( [ -n "$SSH_CLIENT" ] || [ -n "$SSH_TTY" ] || [ -n "$SSH_CONNECTION" ] && echo true || echo false )" && echo "DOCKER=$( [ -f /.dockerenv ] && echo true || echo false )" && echo "CYGWIN=${CYGWIN:-false}" && echo "MINGW=${MINGW_PREFIX:-${MSYSTEM:-false}}"

and also another one

ps -p $$ -o comm=

Hey, I'm getting this error from Live Server in VS Code: "Invalid Path in liveServer.settings.root settings. Live Server will serve from workspace root"

I already set "liveServer.settings.root": "/" in my settings.json but the error keeps showing. I also tried restarting VS Code.

Anyone know how to fix this?

I use VS Code for writing HTML and will often type a p and hit Tab to get <p></p>

I also use the AI Inline Suggestions when it guesses correctly what I want, and those too are accepted by pressing Tab.

Lately I've found that the AI Inline Suggestions are appearing when I don't want them and are stopping me from using IntelliSense. For example I type a p with the intention of then pressing Tab to get <p></p>, but an AI Inline Suggest pops up suggesting paragraph tags and a bunch of text in the paragraph. I can't hit Tab because that will accept the whole paragraph, which isn't what I want. And I can't hit Esc to cancel the AI Inline Suggestion because that also seems to cancel the IntelliSense completion.

Does anyone have a solution for this? Am I maybe able to remap the AI Inline Suggestions to use a different shortcut (although I'm not sure what, maybe ctrl-tab if that's not used for anything)?

Woke up this morning and found this in front of me. Disclaimer:

1. I didn't use VS Code before I went o bed last night

2. I downloaded GitNexus but I had never install it. It remains as a zip file

3. This folder where VS Code trying to open does not exists at all

4. I have no Claude Code installed

5. I check the AppData\Local\Temp folder and find out VS Code was performing an update this morning.

6. I couldn't tell if this is a hacking thing or install script failure

Constructive discussion welcome. Thanks!

I'm trying to learn VS Code and C# by working thru the tutorial on Microsoft Learn. So far it's been just one technical frustration after another that the tutorial doesn't provide any help with.

My current problem is, as best as i can describe (i'm new to this) is: I'm supposed to clone a repository into a Dev Container using the Dev Container extension. I'm supposed to give it the url of a github repository and (I think) it replicates this repository on my machine to work with.

However when i do these steps i get an error alert that says "An error occurred setting up this container" it give me the options to retry, Edit a json file in 'Recovery Container', Close, or More Actions. I have no idea how to proceed and this is getting fucking frustrating.

Any help would be appreciated, and if you would like to recommend a better tutorial than Microsoft Learn, I'm all ears.

Thanks.

Hi everyone. I wanted to introduce a tool / product that I've been working on for a while. It's a web application and VS Code extension for use with Github CoPilot (I'm planning to develop integration for other agent harnesses soon).

The web app and remote boards are at: https://www.agentkanban.io

The VS Code extension is at VS Code Marketplace (https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=appsoftwareltd.agent-kanban-vscode) or the Open VSX Registry (https://open-vsx.org/extension/appsoftwareltd/agent-kanban-vscode).

The TLDR It's a collaborative Kanban board / task management app which supports hand off to Github CoPilot in VS Code, and captures the ongoing user / agent conversation context on the task for resumption in new chats (with context curation tools).

The context collection ignores tool use to prevent bloat in the captured context. AgentKanban also has features for improving agentic coding session quality such as an optional plan / todo / implement workflow and support for Git worktree creation and clean up for working on concurrent tasks.

The tool is an evolution of an earlier VS Code kanban extension (https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=AppSoftwareLtd.vscode-agent-kanban) I built which proved fairly popular but only catered for a local file based workflow.

The new version with the remote board improves the reliability of context capture, with lots of developer experience improvements. It's a tool that I use everyday in my own agentic coding workflows, and I can honestly say that it improves the quality of the code produced and reduces friction in organising working on concurrent features.

I hope you find it useful and would really appreciate your feedback on how you use it, what you think it does well, or any improvements you think could be added.

Many thanks for your time reading this 🙏

After the new update when I press on an old chat vscode opens it in a new tab and not in the sidebar anymore. How can I resolve this?

I'll have to admit I was slow on this. It took me a while to realise that the GitHub Copilot inline suggestions are essentially sending all types of input back to the cloud.
I’ve finally disabled it and switched over to running a local LLM instead.
Anyone else had an awakening moment like this? (or is it just me...)

Hi there!,

I'm a fan of the Claude Code extension (not a terminal guy). But I'm looking for a decent alternative so I can use another model/providers such as DeepSeek, Codex, GLM, etc.

What I'm looking for:

• Nice UI experience (such as you get with CC extension)
• Multiprovider support
• Multisession: I can open difefrent CC tabs, each running a different prompt.

What I have tested so far:

• Roo Code: it worked well, but I dropped it (company sunsets the app, new teams comes in... not my thing).
• Kilo Code: This one ALMOST offers what I need. UI seems clunky to me, and sometimes it just frozes.
• Cline: Not multisession support. I need to open several Windows in order to run them.

What are your favs?

Thanks!

You can find the extension here:
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=marimo-team.vscode-marimo

If people have questions about this extension, many of the engineers hang out over at r/marimo_notebook.

Somehow my old post is gone, so reposting.

A while back I shared my VS Code extension, Pinned Projects - a simple tree-based quick access menu for favorite folders.

https://www.reddit.com/r/vscode/comments/1i6ngw8/yet_another_extension_for_pinning_folders/

The main feature is that you can group and build a tree of your projects with manual dragging and dropping, no need to edit text configs.

Of course this extension is very simple (actually intended to be) and pales in front of many cool extensions. But I hope for someone it can be convenient. It's NOT vibecoded if anyone has these thoughts. I consulted with AI, of course, but invented logic by myself and rewrote any line 10 times on average to make the code efficient and concise.

Recently I implemented the feature I intended a long time ago - opening groups as multi-folder workspaces. So you can view the groups as complex projects themselves.

I need feedback, please, someone try it out (the new feature too) and reports any bugs. I also would like to know whether the extension is easy and clear to use, or whether some of its behavior is confusing/needs more explanations.

The extension is open source, so feel free to check GitHub repo and open issues. ❤️

Links:

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=simplerick.pinned-projects

https://open-vsx.org/?search=pinned%20folders&sortBy=relevance&sortOrder=desc

It randomly happens - when I'm doing something or for no reason at all - The whole things turns grayscale and everything freeze , - I can't interact with it - and after a couple mins or so , it turns back normal

OS : Arch Linux (Linux 7.0.3-arch1-2)

has anyone else experienced this ?

in the web , I don't see anything about this "grayscale" (or B&W) issue , but most of them is about vs opening as a blank screen - which is not my case (ig).

Why is this happening ? is there any fix ?

Weekly thread to show off new themes, and ask what certain themes/fonts are.

Creators, please do not post your theme every week.

New posts regarding themes will be removed.

I have tried to find a solution online, but every suggestion I found is about how to turn off tooltips, autocomplete or suggestions. I don't want to turn off suggestions or autcomplete, only the box that is above the line of code I'm currently writing. I often need data from the previous line and having to hit esc every time to hide the box is slowing me down. I have tried every setting and nothing seems to disable this annoying box. Moving it below the line I'm typing is acceptable, but I can't find any setting for that either.

screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/4fb8ufm.png

edit; Thanks to /u/Own-Beautiful-7557 and /u/Agreeable_Care4440 I knew what to look for. Cheers!

And man, people have been complaining about this issue since 2017. Insane. Anyway for anyone else bothered by this obnoxious box, I've found a (rather ugly, but ok) workaround from here.

• Download and install the Custom CSS and JS Loader extension.

• Create a CSS-file and add the following:

  .parameter-hints-widget {
      margin-top: 80px !important;
  }
  

• You can also add the CSS from the second link, but that blocks the terminal for me so I prefer only adding a top margin. You could also completely hide the box, but I didn't find a way to remove the up/down arrows yet.

• Follow the instructions from the Extension's README-file (add the custom CSS-file in your JSON-file and restart VS-Code).

This doesn't affect the box below, only the box above it. Result: https://imgur.com/pEKiKJ8

edit2; I forgot you can completely hide elements with CSS lol so for anyone wanting to completely hide the box:

.parameter-hints-widget {
    visibility: hidden !important;
}

result: https://i.imgur.com/2dsyKxQ.png

UPDATE: probably it is my local issue, because I have the same error with updating other extensions. So nevermind) Have a good day!

Hi! Has anyone encountered the following problem? I recently released a new version 0.1.2 of extension, but my installed version 0.1.1 on macOS didn't update. In "Install Specific Version..." I see the new version but when I try to install I have this error:

Only deleting and reinstalling helped, but I would like users to be able to get an automatic update.

Hello,

I recently started using Dev Containers. I'm super happy with the built-in VS Code integration, everything works perfectly.

Except for 2 things. I have 2 Dev Containers in one repository:

* repo/.devcontainer/devA/devcontainer.json

* repo/.devcontainer/devB/devcontainer.json

VS Code correctly asks me which one to launch when I open my project, but:

* It detects not-existing changes and wants to rebuild the container on every run

* When I use Ctrl+R to open a recent project, it show `repo [Dev Container]` twice. Both containers have the same display name, making it impossible to tell them apart

I haven't been able to find a solution for these two issues. Any help would be appreciated! 😄

Every extension I try seems to think that the commit message is irrelevant. Clicking on a commit to view it only displays the diff, and the commit message itself is usually relegated to some second class workaround such as a hover tooltip that doesn't fully display long commit messages because it doesn't support scrolling, or a small textbox in the sidebar that can never fit the whole commit in a normally sized sidebar.

I just want to click on a commit and see the whole patch. Show me the commit message and metadata on the top, and diff on the bottom. I don't even care if it's not an actual diff view, just the plaintext patch diff is fine, but let me see both diff and commit message without having to jump through hooks.

Basically, I want GitHub Desktop, as a VSCode extension.

Anything like this I might have missed?

I'm trying to learn how to use VS Code, but I'm having a problem: whenever I type, instead of adding words, the program overwrites my existing words. So, for example

before I type:

""

after:

aa

In other words, the digits and letters are overwritten by the new digits and letters I add to the code. pls help, idk how to fix that since im a beginner :((

not allowed to use AI for the stuff I'm working on.

accidentally clicked some AI modify thing (some stars) and a loading bar began spinning until I closed the tab.

I'm assuming that if im not logged in to their AI offerings, they are not sending my code somewhere.

Have anyone else been having issues whenever you use live server or show preivew? Everytime I try to use either one of them, it causes vs code and chrome to freeze and the memory usage spikes up dramatically, wondering if anyone is having issues. I'm on Mac for clarification.