ability to copy background

[polygonnedpotato]

Feature

In the command picker, there should be an option to copy the current background for either the window, editor, panel, or sidebar.

Like Background: Copy Image > Window

Optionally, potentially providing a hint as to what the file name is would be a nice touch.

Reason

• sharing wallpapers with friends
• being able to (indirectly) copy the wallpaper to the current project
• it would be cool

[Katsute]

Unfortunately there isn't a way to add this feature; the backgrounds are running in a separate process than the extension thread, so there isn't a way to actually get the current background via the extension.

[Katsute]

If you want to copy or share settings you can open your user settings from the command pallette, the options for this extension will start with background.

[polygonnedpotato]

well, the picture url is exposed by style tags in the head section, so

/url\(".*"\)/gm.exec(document.head.getElementsByTagName('style')['KatsuteDev/Background-window-images'].outerText)[0].slice(5,-2)

returns a vscode-file encoded url, for example vscode-file://vscode-app/home/kitsune/Pictures/wall.jpg refers to /home/kitsune/Pictures/wall.jpg

i don't know how going about copying the image to the clipboard, but that's how to get the file url.

[Katsute]

VSCode extensions do not have access to the DOM, it is not possible to have a command in the extension run code on the HTML in the IDE.

[polygonnedpotato]

ah, i see

i think i will investigate into how vscode works and see if there might be a way around that

[Katsute]

There is not a way, the separation is intentional so extensions can't mess with the front end elements.

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