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"editor.rulers" not working

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
30/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
vscode
Domain
tooling

Research direction

Start by reproducing the reported editor.rulers configuration on Zorin 16.2 based on Ubuntu 20.04, including the empty-array case. Check whether the default ruler persists in the Flatpak build and compare the behavior with the default settings shown in the report; done means the configured rulers appear and an empty array removes the default ruler, or the issue is narrowed to an upstream VS Code problem.

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Description

I would like to add some rulers
My Config
"editor.rulers": [ { "column": 72, "color": "#9a32ad" }, { "column": 89, "color": "#000000" }, ]
This does nothing, I also tried passing an empty array but that also did nothing (The default ruler was still there, although I don't know why I have a default ruler as the default settings json file has a empty array for editor.rulers)

Additional :
OS : Zorin 16.2 (Based on Ubuntu 20.04)
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