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Suddenly I see only the shades of the GUI any Idea how to fix this? using Plasma x11

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Try running it from the command line with code --disable-gpu.

If that works, you can update the desktop shortcut files (exec section) with the same added parameter.

I recently ran into something similar (opensuse slowroll//kde)

Ref: stackoverflow/Google for the --disable-gpu argument, the desktop file editing - I did for convenience.

Here's how you can find . desktop files

Desktop file reference.- easy format

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

First, thank you! Sadly, this didn't help. In ended up deleting (renaming) ~/.config/Code which helped. Luckily enough all the plugins survived because they are installed under ~/.vscode

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

That's interesting. I am on GNOME/Wayland and the above flag helped.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

This worked for me as well, thanks!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This happened to new do I switched to Codium and never looked back

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Actually, while figuring things out, I did also install Codium and copied the extensions folder from VSCode to the codium folder... Works like a charm - might stay there for the peace of mind.