Vscode: Upgrade chromium to version 80 to support 30-bit color depth on Linux

Created on 1 Apr 2020  路  4Comments  路  Source: microsoft/vscode




Hello,

Chromium 78 in the 1.43.2 stable version fails to correctly render in a 30-bit color depth Linux desktop environment. The output is like this. VSCode is similarly affected. I'm not sure if a previous version worked but it seems the latest stable chromium now works well.

I tried a local compilation based on the 1.43.2 release, replacing the chromium and the electron to their latest stable versions. That solved the above problem on my PC (Manjaro, KDE).

I believe there's a growing need for such scenario so I wish it's considered in the near future.

Thanks

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I just tried this on Arch Linux and the white menu flashes are gone! I hope this gets on the official stable release soon!

picture charbelnicolas on 11 Apr 2020
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Our exploration builds are based on chromium 80, you can give it try. There is no timeline yet for when we are going to push for stable.

Download:

deepak1556 picture deepak1556 on 1 Apr 2020
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I just tried this on Arch Linux and the white menu flashes are gone! I hope this gets on the official stable release soon!

charbelnicolas picture charbelnicolas on 11 Apr 2020
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Happy and grateful to know the current insider build is working.

luglio picture luglio on 28 Jul 2020

Fix will also be available in upcoming stable release.

deepak1556 picture deepak1556 on 28 Aug 2020
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