Following up on a recent post on Distrobox…

For those using VSCode with Distrobox, how do you all do it? distrobox wiki suggests two approaches: flatpak + dev containers and running vscode from within distrobox.

Which do you prefer and why?

I’ve experimented with both and got both running with Wayland. Using the latter approach (vscode within distrobox), I couldn’t quite get the running instances to be recognized by GNOME shell as the same vscode app that launched it. It shows up as code-url-handler, and doesn’t share the same icon on the dash. The flatpak approach doesn’t seem to have this issue.

  • @erock
    1•1 year ago

    I don’t use vscode so I can’t help too much beyond saying Distrobox is awesome and I’ve been using it for my headless dev machine for a few months and won’t go back to anything else.