File dialogs within a remote SSHed session of VSCode open on the host machine, not the WSL client

Type: Bug

Open a WSL2 session on your Windows 10 computer.

PS C:\Users\my_username> wsl --version WSL version: 2.2.4.0 Kernel version: 5.15.153.1-2 WSLg version: 1.0.61 MSRDC version: 1.2.5326 Direct3D version: 1.611.1-81528511 DXCore version: 10.0.26091.1-240325-1447.ge-release Windows version: 10.0.19045.4651

Use ssh with the -X option to open a connection to a remote Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS computer.

Within that ssh session to the remote Ubuntu computer, launch VSCode by typing "code".

VSCode properly launches over the forwarded X11 session, displaying the editor on my Windows computer. I can use VSCode properly and everything seems to work fine.

But, if I try to open one of the file dialogs, such as "File --> Open File..." the dialog window does not appear on my Windows client, but instead, the dialog window pops up on the host Ubuntu computer. It does this for all of the file actions, such as Open File, Open Folder, Open Workspace from File, Add Folder to Workspace, Save Workspace As.

Some of the other actions work properly, such as File --> New Window, which opens the new window on my Windows client, and Help --> About which properly displays the About dialog on my Windows client.

Other Linux applications like gedit do not have this problem, as the file dialogs from that application open on my Windows client as expected.

VS Code version: Code 1.92.2 (fee1edb8d6d72a0ddff41e5f71a671c23ed924b9, 2024-08-14T17:29:30.058Z) OS version: Linux x64 6.8.0-40-generic Modes:

System Info

|Item|Value| |---|---| |CPUs|Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-9100HL CPU @ 1.60GHz (4 x 2600)| |GPU Status|2d_canvas: unavailable_software
canvas_oop_rasterization: disabled_off
direct_rendering_display_compositor: disabled_off_ok
gpu_compositing: disabled_software
multiple_raster_threads: enabled_on
opengl: disabled_off
rasterization: disabled_software
raw_draw: disabled_off_ok
skia_graphite: disabled_off
video_decode: disabled_software
video_encode: disabled_software
vulkan: disabled_off
webgl: unavailable_software
webgl2: unavailable_software
webgpu: disabled_off
webnn: disabled_off| |Load (avg)|1, 0, 0| |Memory (System)|15.48GB (13.27GB free)| |Process Argv|--crash-reporter-id e3d5322d-bd10-4598-9ddd-169cfa96e5bb| |Screen Reader|no| |VM|0%| |DESKTOP_SESSION|undefined| |XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP|undefined| |XDG_SESSION_DESKTOP|undefined| |XDG_SESSION_TYPE|tty|

Extensions (8)

Extension|Author (truncated)|Version ---|---|--- git-graph|mhu|1.30.0 vscode-docker|ms-|1.29.2 remote-containers|ms-|0.380.0 cmake-tools|ms-|1.18.44 cpptools|ms-|1.21.6 cpptools-extension-pack|ms-|1.3.0 makefile-tools|ms-|0.10.26 cmake|twx|0.0.17 (1 theme extensions excluded)

A/B Experiments

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microsoft / vscode

File dialogs within a remote SSHed session of VSCode open on the host machine, not the WSL client #225975