Add URL Handler to Visual Studio Code on Linux, vscode, code, linux

README.md

How to Install

• Create vscode-url-handler in /usr/bin
• Create vscode-url-handler.desktop in /usr/share/applications
• Edit mimeappd.list in /usr/share/applications/mimeappd.list

Understand? Good!

mimeappd.list

x-scheme-handler/vscode=code-url-handler.desktop

vscode-url-handler

#!/usr/bin/env bash

# Launch Visual Studio Code
/usr/share/code/code -g -r "$(echo ${1:14} | echo -e "$(sed 's/+/ /g; s/%/\\x/g')")"

vscode-url-handler.desktop

#!/usr/bin/env xdg-open

[Desktop Entry]
Name=Visual Studio Code URL Handler
Comment=Code Editing. Redefined.
GenericName=Text Editor
Exec=/usr/bin/vscode-url-handler %u
Icon=code
Type=Application
StartupNotify=false
StartupWMClass=Code
NoDisplay=true
Terminal=false
Categories=Utility;TextEditor;Development;IDE;
MimeType=x-scheme-handler/vscode
Keywords=vscode-handler;

X-Desktop-File-Install-Version=0.22
Name[en_US]=code-url-handler