Description:

I am trying to use the Live Share extension. It fails, because there are missing proposed apis.

The official recommendation from microsoft for archlinux is not to use the open source edition.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/liveshare/reference/linux#vs-code-oss-issues

The workaround is, to add some entries to extensionAllowedProposedApi

I can confirm, that live share works, after applying this diff:

--- /usr/lib/code/product.json 2020-05-18 00:17:09.000000000 +0200
+++ product.json 2020-06-06 07:49:07.101493102 +0200
@@ -33,7 +33,13 @@
"licenseFileName": "LICENSE.txt",
"reportIssueUrl": "https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/new",
"urlProtocol": "code-oss",
- "extensionAllowedProposedApi": ["ms-vscode.vscode-js-profile-table", "ms-vscode.references-view"],
+ "extensionAllowedProposedApi": [
+ "ms-vscode.vscode-js-profile-table",
+ "ms-vscode.references-view",
+ "ms-vsliveshare.vsliveshare",
+ "ms-vscode.node-debug",
+ "ms-vscode.node-debug2"
+ ],
"builtInExtensions": [{
"name": "ms-vscode.node-debug",
"version": "1.44.5",


Additional info:
* package version(s): 1.45.1-1
* link to upstream bug report, if any: https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/live-share/issues/262

Steps to reproduce:

1. Install the live share extension.
2. Click on "Start collaboration session..."
3. In the bottom right, click on "more infos"
4. In the opened window, click on "Try joining yourself"