vscode always opens welcome screen on startup instead of last opened folder

Question

I built my own custom version of vscode to add some features to the minimap, namely highlighting when highlighting a word. All is well and good, apart from the issue where my version of vscode never remembers the last opened folder and always opens the welcome screen instead.

The official version of vscode does not do this and opens the last opened folder, as expected. What is wrong with my version?

For reference, this is the code I used to build my version of vscode: https://github.com/abhijitvalluri/vscode/tree/minimap_enhancements

Answer 1

According to https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/getstarted/settings you need to set workbench.startupEditor to "None".