Missing electron bin folder

[matejdro]

When downloading settings, I'm getting this error:

/usr/lib/electron25 exists, but there is no bin folder. This is on Arch Linux. Electron is normally installed from arch package and as far as I can tell, works fine. Not sure why plugin expects bin folder to be there.

[daiyam]

With which AUR have installed VSCode or VSCodium?

The issue must be related to the lookup for the binary to restart the app when the sync is done.

[matejdro]

It's the default code package, Code - OSS.

[daiyam]

Yeah, the cli path is modified to "$pkgdir"/usr/bin/code-oss (https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/code/-/blob/main/PKGBUILD?ref_type=heads#L127, https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/code/-/blob/main/clipath.patch?ref_type=heads)

While the extension uses the current process to guess the app executable (https://github.com/zokugun/vscode-sync-settings/blob/master/src/utils/restart-app.ts#L70)

And since the Code - OSS use the system Electron to launch, the detection would need to be updated to support that version.