Wednesday, November 17, 2021

Fixing Visual Studio Code icon overlay color in Linux

A few months ago I had to dig into Visual Studio Code source until I found a change in the built-in light theme, where they changed the overlay color of the suspended autocomplete menu. This ended up being a question and an answer on StackOverflow, and it made up to my Windows patch.

There’s no patch for Linux, though. Another jab at my lack of multiplatform GUI framework – but I digress.

So, for the record, with Visual Studio Code standard *.deb installation, this is the file with the light theme:

/usr/share/code/resources/app/extensions/theme-defaults/themes/light_vs.json

The line to be commented out is:

"list.activeSelectionIconForeground": "#FFF"

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