From dcfb172704f3afb68a30425029ec834be2883274 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: bt Date: Sat, 8 Jun 2024 13:22:19 -0400 Subject: More content porting, on-going markdown changes for lowdown support --- build/vscode/index.html | 39 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------ 1 file changed, 27 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) (limited to 'build/vscode/index.html') diff --git a/build/vscode/index.html b/build/vscode/index.html index 4f01018..30c17de 100644 --- a/build/vscode/index.html +++ b/build/vscode/index.html @@ -1,37 +1,52 @@ - + Running VSCode in Chromium on OpenBSD - - + + +
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Running VSCode in Chromium on OpenBSD

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Running VSCode in Chromium on OpenBSD

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2023-06-05

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VSCode and its many variations are not available on OpenBSD. This doesn't cause issue with many OpenBSD users, but those making the jump from Linux might miss access to such a popular editor. Lucky for us, there is a hacky workaround to solve this problem.

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VSCode in the Browser

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VSCode and its many variations are not available on OpenBSD. This doesn’t cause issue with many OpenBSD users, but those making the jump from Linux might miss access to such a popular editor. Lucky for us, there is a hacky workaround to solve this problem.

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VSCode in the Browser

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I tried my best to build something like code-server locally and run that directly in my browser - but I failed miserably. Instead, I fell back on vscode.dev which is essentially a remote version of code-server.

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Getting things to work seamlessly proved a little more challenging. I found the best performance was running everything through Chromium with special parameters enabled on launch.

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Note: The following assumes you have already installed chromium

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Note: The following assumes you have already installed chromium

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First we need to disable unveil for Chromium. This will allow us to access our system files through vscode.dev using the "Open folder..." or "Open file..." commands without issue:

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First we need to disable unveil for Chromium. This will allow us to access our system files through vscode.dev using the “Open folder…” or “Open file…” commands without issue:

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chrome --disable-unveil
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Everything should work pretty solid right out the box now - except it doesn't. Syntax highlighting does not work without enabling WASM/WebAssembly. Your experience might be different, but I had to include the following when launching Chromium from the terminal:

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Everything should work pretty solid right out the box now - except it doesn’t. Syntax highlighting does not work without enabling WASM/WebAssembly. Your experience might be different, but I had to include the following when launching Chromium from the terminal:

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ENABLE_WASM=1 chrome --enable-wasm
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Success! We can avoid typing out these complex commands everytime we want to launch our editor by setting up an alias (in my case via .zshrc):

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alias vscode="ENABLE_WASM=1 chrome --enable-wasm --disable-unveil"
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alias vscode="ENABLE_WASM=1 chrome --enable-wasm --disable-unveil"
 

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That's it! Now I can just pop open VSCode on OpenBSD by simply running vscode in my terminal. Hopefully this can help others slowly transition over to OpenBSD - which you should do because it is amazing!

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That’s it! Now I can just pop open VSCode on OpenBSD by simply running vscode in my terminal. Hopefully this can help others slowly transition over to OpenBSD - which you should do because it is amazing!