Visual Studio Code frequently opens without window buttons

[chriskuech]

Type: Bug

Visual Studio Code has recently frequently been opening without the stoplight buttons in the toolbar. The window is also not responsive to the Close Window hotkey. This means that there is no way to close the window. The only way to close the window is to use Force Quit, but even that does not work very effectively.

VS Code version: Code 1.73.1 (Universal) (6261075646f055b99068d3688932416f2346dd3b, 2022-11-09T02:08:38.961Z) OS version: Darwin arm64 22.1.0 Modes: Sandboxed: No

System Info

|Item|Value| |---|---| |CPUs|Apple M1 (8 x 24)| |GPU Status|2d_canvas: enabled
canvas_oop_rasterization: disabled_off
direct_rendering_display_compositor: disabled_off_ok
gpu_compositing: enabled
metal: disabled_off
multiple_raster_threads: enabled_on
opengl: enabled_on
rasterization: enabled
raw_draw: disabled_off_ok
skia_renderer: enabled_on
video_decode: enabled
video_encode: enabled
vulkan: disabled_off
webgl: enabled
webgl2: enabled
webgpu: disabled_off| |Load (avg)|5, 6, 6| |Memory (System)|16.00GB (0.08GB free)| |Process Argv|. --crash-reporter-id f310298e-b212-47d6-946f-d87af402c8cc| |Screen Reader|no| |VM|0%|

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[sbatten]

Is the window responsive otherwise? Meaning you can interact with the window but are having difficulty closing it.

[chriskuech]

Yes the window seems generally responsive. I can add/remove editor tabs.

[chriskuech]

@sbatten is there any more info I can provide? This happens at least daily.

[sbatten]

@deepak1556 is there a known issue on the electron side? doesn't seem like something we would control?

@chriskuech what locale is your machine configured?

[chriskuech]

@sbatten I am en-us.

I believe both Discord and Slack are Electron and have not observed the same issue there.

[sbatten]

You are right that they are Electron, but I don't know the version they use. I think I need @deepak1556 to point me in the right direction to figure this one out.

[chriskuech]

Is this possibly related to frame merging? I am pretty sure I have only (inconsistently) observed this when opening VS Code (accidentally) from the dock when it is already running with no windows open. I don't think I've had such a scenario with Discord or Slack that would trigger this.

[deepak1556]

Seems related to https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/161586

@chriskuech are you facing a similar usage scenario to https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/161586#issue-1383667662 ? can you share your settings ?

[chriskuech]

@deepak1556 this sounds like possible match. What settings can I provide and how?

[deepak1556]

I would like to confirm your window related settings, you can share the settings.json output in this thread.

[chriskuech]

Ah I do see "window.restoreFullscreen": true,. I have set it to false and will report if I still see the issue. It would be nice to have this supported though.

[chriskuech]

Using that setting seems to have helped--I no longer observe this issue daily, but still occasionally observe the issue.

[deepak1556]

I will merge this to https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/161586