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Display Scaling below 100% breaks VSCode on Wayland Desktop

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
52/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Quiet
Tech stack
vscode
Domain
desktop

Research direction

Start by inspecting the Flatpak launch configuration for com.visualstudio.code and compare it with the command-line arguments linked in the issue. Verify the result on a Wayland desktop with display scaling below 100%; done means VS Code launches and displays correctly without requiring manual arguments.

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Description

The issue I'm referring to is this: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/SteamOS/issues/2351

But @SuzukiStumpy said this fixed the issue for him: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/311247#issuecomment-4391343357

Adding the following to the command-line arguments for the application seems to have fixed the issue for me for now: --enable-features=UseOzonePlatform --ozone-platform=wayland --disable-features=WaylandFractionalScaleV1

So I'm wondering if this is something that could potentially be added by default through the Flatpak?

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