How to initialize code-server with extensions, settings, shortcuts, etc. using config file?

[arita37]

We want to initialize code-server with some-preset
save into a yaml file on disk.

[jsjoeio]

Hi @arita37 - this is already possible, to some extent. If you look at the logs when code-server starts, it uses a config file somewhere on your machine like: ~/.config/code-server/config.yaml

Here's what the file looks like:

bind-addr: 127.0.0.1:8080
auth: password
password: helloworld
cert: false

Any flag that the CLI accepts should be configurable in the yaml file. Hope that helps! Please reopen if I misunderstood and you need something else!

[arita37]

How to pre-installed extensions ? Suppose I have extension on disk and wants to install them from config file at start and same for dakr mode, Shortcuts

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[jsjoeio]

A few things you can do:

• you could write a script that installs extensions like so: code-server --install-extension ms-python.python (see more)
• you could reuse your VS Code configuration (see more) (i.e. for dark mode or a theme) and it should work for shortcuts as well

[Ki6an]

hey, @jsjoeio pylint is not working, the python version its using is ms-python.python v2021.2.633441544.
here are the versions

code-server: v3.9.1
VS Code: v1.53.2

can you please help me fix this issue?

[jsjoeio]

Hi @Ki6an! Sorry to hear you're having issues. See #2341 - we're hoping to work on a fix soon! In the meantime, please read through that thread. There may be some workarounds.

[Ki6an]

thank you for the response, it works on the 2020.5.86806 version of python. Incase someone has the same problem I left the soln here

[nooobcoder]

Use dotfiles for preconfiguring your code-server instance.
You can check my dot file config repo if you are interested. It comes with zsh by default and some pretty cool extensions.

https://github.com/nooobcoder/dot

Please mark this discussion as answered if your query has been resolved.
Thanks

[nooobcoder]

@arita37 any update, did this work out?

[arita37]

Can I use on Colab with Colabcode ?

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[nooobcoder]

Might be possible if you have a paid account to access Google colab, because Colab allows limited access to terminal on a host machine with paid accounts only. I can not assure if this dot configuration would work or not. This totally depends as I have never tried like this before. Dot files are meant to be executed on a host machine where you have greater control like a cloud compute machine that you own.

@arita37 please mark your discussion as answered if my answer was correct to your question. Colab with ColabCode is a completely different scenario with your question asked.

Thank you

[nooobcoder]

[UPDATE]

I checked out colabcode, it is nice but configuring the server with dot files is not at all possible because, you are not allowed a terminal access as I told you before. I am attaching a screenshot below. Also, it runs on a fork of CodeServer v3.7~ which is a lot older. Latest version is 3.9.2. I request you to refrain from such volatile dev environments which are pruned when the colab notebook is shut down.

It is an extremely unstable environment, it temporarily hosts a code-server using ngrok (port forwarding).

Thank you, please mark the discussion as answered, as this does not required any further discussion.

[Ki6an]

hey, you can try openvino-colab python library, been using it for a while & it works fine. it uses the latest version of code-server.

code-server: v3.9.2
VS Code: v1.54.2

[nooobcoder]

@Ki6an is it persistent? After the notebook is shut down, is it preserved? If no, then it has no purpose as it becomes highly volatile to code.

[Ki6an]

use your drive as a working directory. as long as the code server is running the notebook won't disconnect (unlike it usually disconnects due to inactivity).
one additional tip - create a ngrok account and use your secret auth token inside server() method get rid of frequent closing of tunnel.

[arita37]

Thanks My question, /install.sh requires which access right and install ???? Am on server no sudo right

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On Apr 4, 2021, at 21:25, Ankur Paul ***@***.***> wrote:  [UPDATE] I checked out colabcode, it is nice but configuring the server with dot files is not at all possible because, you are not allowed a terminal access as I told you before. I am attaching a screenshot below. Also, it runs on a fork of CodeServer v3.7~ which is a lot older. Latest version is 3.9.2. I request you to refrain from such volatile dev environments which are pruned when the colab notebook is shut down. Thank you, please mark the discussion as answered, as this does not required any further discussion. — You are receiving this because you were mentioned. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub, or unsubscribe.

[nooobcoder]

It requires 400 to be executed

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[nooobcoder]

@code-asher @jsjoeio please look into this discussion, the discussion is going off topic, even when i answered a solution to configure code-server with settings using dot files. Please mark the discussion as answered if it seems to you too that there is no discussion required to be made.

[jsjoeio]

Thanks for the tag @nooobcoder. I agree. We'll mark it as answered.