How can I disable GPU rendering in Visual Studio Code

Question

I'm with bad rendering issues... Seems that the Visual Studio Code window do not clean a screen area before redraw it. The same thing happens here with chrome browser, but in chrome I can start it with " --disable-gpu-rendering " and it goes well.

How can I disable GPU rendering in Visual Studio Code ?

I'm thinking it's a hardware specific problem, and I'm looking for a other way to solve it too.

May be useful know my hardware:

Machine: Notebook dell vostro 3500 (intel chipset) CPU: Intel i5 RAM: 8G linux kernel: 4.0 video graphics: intel i915 (latest) X -version: X.Org X Server 1.14.0 

Answer 1

Note that VSCode 1.40 (Oct. 2019) proposes an alternative to the parameter/flag --disable-gpu:

Disable GPU acceleration

We have heard issue reports from users that seem related to how the GPU is used to render VS Code's UI.
These users have a much better experience when running VS Code with the additional --disable-gpu command-line argument.
Running with this argument will disable the GPU hardware acceleration and fall back to a software renderer.

To make life easier, you can add this flag as a setting so that it does not have to be passed on the command line each time.

To add this flag:

• Open the Command Palette (Ctrl+Shift+P).
• Run the Preferences: Configure Runtime Arguments command. This command will open a argv.json file to configure runtime arguments.
  You might see some default arguments there already.
• Add

  "disable-hardware-acceleration": true 

• Restart VS Code.

Note: Do not use this setting unless you are seeing issues!

Answer 2

Under Windows, I can confirm that launching VSCode with --disable-gpu does not create a GPU process:

C:\Users\alex\AppData\Local\Code\app-0.1.0>Code.exe --disable-gpu

Perhaps the same flag works on Linux too?