Vscode Fractional Scaling

Enable fractional scaling in VSCode on Ubuntu

I am currently using a laptop with a 2K 14” screen with Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. Linux’ support of high-DPI displays is still lacking compared to Windows and especially macOS, however with a few easy tweaks we can solve this.

By default VSCode on Ubuntu does not support fractional scaling well, but it works great when launching it with the following flags:

code --enable-features=UseOzonePlatform --enable-features=WaylandWindowDecorations --ozone-platform-hint=auto "$@"

This command is quite long and it would be nice to be able to launch it by simply typing code in the terminal. We can create a script that allows us to launch VSCode with the flags:

• Create a script in ~/bin/vscode-custom.sh:

    nano ~/bin/vscode-custom.sh
  

• Paste the following in the script:

    #!/bin/bash
    code --enable-features=UseOzonePlatform --enable-features=WaylandWindowDecorations --ozone-platform-hint=auto "$@"
  

• Make the script executable:

    chmod +x ~/bin/vscode-custom.sh
  

• Edit ~/.bashrc to add an alias to the command:

    nano ~/.bashrc
  

  and add the following line at the end of it:

    alias code="~/bin/vscode-custom.sh"
  

Now open a new terminal or execute source ~/.bashrc in the open one and type code. VSCode should be crisp clear!