vscode: Window resizing broken on Chromebook (v 1.53.1)

Issue

The application window will no longer snap to the left/right half of the screen (keystrokes: Alt+ ], Alt+[) The application window will no longer maximise via double-clicking on the window title-bar. The behaviour was first observed in v1.53.0 I don’t think the issue relates to the Linux environment on a Chromebook, as other Linux apps (e.g. Brave Browser, Gimp) resize as expected.

Environment

VS Code installed as a Linux app on a Chromebook from Microsoft APT repository source

VS Code

Version: 1.53.1
Commit: 5d424b828ada08e1eb9f95d6cb41120234ef57c7
Date: 2021-02-08T23:30:54.166Z
Electron: 11.2.1
Chrome: 87.0.4280.141
Node.js: 12.18.3
V8: 8.7.220.31-electron.0
OS: Linux x64 5.4.74-10576-gb6cc41974db3

Linux

pvspain@penguin:~$ cat /etc/os-release | grep PRETTY_NAME
PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster)"
pvspain@penguin:~$ uname -a
Linux penguin 5.4.74-10576-gb6cc41974db3 #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun Nov 8 15:08:12 PST 2020 x86_64 GNU/Linux
pvspain@penguin:~$ apt policy code
code:
  Installed: 1.53.1-1612827767
  Candidate: 1.53.1-1612827767
  Version table:
 *** 1.53.1-1612827767 500
        500 http://packages.microsoft.com/repos/code stable/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     1.53.0-1612368357 500
        500 http://packages.microsoft.com/repos/code stable/main amd64 Packages
     1.52.1-1608136922 500
        500 http://packages.microsoft.com/repos/code stable/main amd64 Packages
     1.52.0-1607640828 500
        500 http://packages.microsoft.com/repos/code stable/main amd64 Packages
     1.51.1-1605051630 500
        500 http://packages.microsoft.com/repos/code stable/main amd64 Packages
pvspain@penguin:~$

Google Chrome OS

Version:  88.0.4324.153 (Official Build) (64-bit)
Platform: 13597.84.0 (Official Build) stable-channel eve

About this issue

Original URL
State: closed
Created 3 years ago
Reactions: 5
Comments: 20 (5 by maintainers)

Most upvoted comments

Google fixed it on the Chrome OS side, it should start popping up in dev, then beta, than stable builds: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1175092#c29

codysherman on Aug 9, 2021

Hi! I actually opened up a bug report to the Chromium team a few days ago suspecting it was a recent Chrome OS update, but it’s now starting to look like it’s only VSCode that is affected, so it could very well be a VSCode or specific version of Electron issue.

Here is the corresponding Chromium thread: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1175092

codysherman on Feb 12, 2021

Also running into this issue with (v 1.53.1). I’m running VS on a Pixelbook Go through Linux(beta) on the same ChromeOS version. Rolling back to (v 1.52.1) resolved the issue in my case.

DakotahGodfrey on Feb 11, 2021