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VSCode on Ubuntu 20.04 – black screen issue

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As seen in the picture VSCode upon launching is not working, there is blank screen displayed and trying to e.g. a new terminal only shows one more black box in the terminal’s place. No extensions whatsoever were installed lately.

Solutions found under some other posts (although not completely describing my problem), including restarting the program, computer, reinstalling VSCode didn’t help to solve the issue.

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  1. 0

    I had the same issue on Ubuntu 20.04.
    You can open VScode by typing :

    code --disable-gpu

    In order to disable the hardware acceleration in vscode:

    Click:ctrl+shift+p

    Type:
    Preferences: Configure Runtime Arguments

    Uncomment the following:
    "disable-hardware-acceleration": true

    Restart VScode.

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    Try this solution, it worked for me:

    cd $HOME/.config/Code
rm -r GPUCache

    Source: https://medium.com/@syafiqza/blank-screen-in-visual-studio-code-d84707001c94

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