How to specify VSCode (default) settings at code-server launch

[unode]

Hi everyone,

Is there any way to customize default VSCode settings when code-server is launched?

Initially I thought I could use code-server --config config.json but this config should be YAML and affects only code-server itself not the underlying VSCode.

I'm trying to setup a JupyterHub VSCode using dirkcgrunwald/jupyter_codeserver_proxy and I would like to have some settings using different defaults.

For instance:

{
    "terminal.integrated.gpuAcceleration": "canvas"
}

to avoid some terminal rendering issues.

Is there any way to do this without forcing the setting into the user's ~/.local/share/code-server/User/settings.json file?
We'd like to set these as defaults but still allow the user to override it if they modify their settings.

Thanks!

[im-coder-lg]

Hmm... Have you tried going to the config.json in code-server? Hit the F1 key, type Settings, and hit the JSON mode.
Remember, some features are not integrated yet, so it might be a breaking change. If you don't want to break your installation, you could try using the .vscode/config.json method in your project root directory, always works.

[jsjoeio]

I'm not sure how https://github.com/dirkcgrunwald/jupyter_codeserver_proxy- works but it looks like there is a .vscode/settings.json in that directory. What happens if you add your custom settings there? Does that work?

[consideRatio]

System-wide default settings are tracked by microsoft/vscode#27972. There is as of very recently system-wide mandatory settings though, which are called Policy settings, see https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/configure/settings#_settings-precedence.

I was on the lookout for system-wide default settings specifically, which still isn't around.