problems with proxy in vscode

Question

I'm testing VSCode by first time and I configure my proxy in settings.json as recommended:

"http.proxy": "http://domain\user:pass@myproxy:port/"

But it doesn't work when I try to install new extensions I get a connected timeout error. I also try to configure the proxy as system environment variable with the same result. Could you help me? Is it a bug or I'm doing something wrong? Is there another way to download extensions?

Thank you very much!

Answer 1

1. start vscode with below command

   code --proxy-server="xxx.xx.xx.xx:port"

2. add command in desktop for vscode

   /usr/share/applications/code.desktop

   Exec=/usr/share/code/code --proxy-server="xx.x.x.xx:xxx" --unity-launch %F