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foobar17

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Registered: 2025-06-25

Posts: 2

VScode & sway/wayland

Hi!
I just switched from i3 to sway, and I have the problem with VS Code that it does not show the open folder dialogue.
I tried around with different log levels, but VS Code is completely silent through its runtime.
also the args

--enable-features=UseOzonePlatform --ozone-platform=wayland

did not have any impact. (VS Code just gives a warning that

'enable-features' is not in the list of known options, but still passed to Electron/Chromium

. On Plasma wayland or GNOME wayland I don't have any problems.
I was also playing around with several environment variables like

ELECTRON_OZONE_PLATFORM_HINT=wayland

,

GTK_USE_PORTAL

etc.

foobar17

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Registered: 2025-06-25

Posts: 2

Re: VScode & sway/wayland

This did the trick: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/XDG_De … _not_start
i.e.

$ systemctl --user import-environment WAYLAND_DISPLAY XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP
$ dbus-update-activation-environment --systemd WAYLAND_DISPLAY XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=sway

WorMzy

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Registered: 2010-06-16

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Re: VScode & sway/wayland

Please mark your thread as solved by editing the first post and amending the topic title.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Genera … ow_to_post

Mod note: moving to AUR Issues.

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