[GUIDE] How to run Copilot in VSCodium (without VSCode) #1487
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Why do we have to use that specific client_id? I found it a big sketchy, but it did work! |
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It's the VSCode's id. I've found it in one of the issues. There was part of the instruction above but with the wrong scope. I had to reverse the extension a little because it reverted without a clear error log 🥲 |
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Ah okay awesome work! |
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This is great, and works perfectly for connecting VS Codium without the need to do anything in VS Code. I did this on Windows myself and initially had an issue in both Command Prompt & Powershell with curl errors. Ended up resolving that problem by simply using the MINGW64 based |
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I needed to use Git Bash on Windows for |
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You can replace the single quotes ' with double quotes " and it should work on windows cmd |
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Works like a charm on Powershell v7 without any hassle. Thank you! |
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Heck yeah! Thanks for that dude 🔥 |
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Flatpak usersStill working for me as of 2024-08-01I installed VSCodium on
Thanks, @ustas-eth ! |
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Just for reference, if anyone uses this as global/system install: |
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Hi did you try it successfully? Can you share steps @francoism90 |
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I did the same steps as @miclgael. I will share when it needs more. :) |
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I'm having trouble activating Github Copilot Labs with this trick. Can it be done? Thanks in advance. |
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Can't say anything without the actual error. You can try to debug VSCodium though (run it with the --inspect-extension flag and use chrome://inspect) |
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Thanks so much for your reply. The gho api key is the one that successfully allowed copilot to work. |
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Github Copilot Labs uses a different scope to authenticate.
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Warning: 'inspect-extension' is not in the list of known options, but still passed to Electron/Chromium. |
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How do we find out where |
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It depends how you installed it. Can you try |
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I installed it on arch linux with the |
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Update: It's now at |
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This worked on my Linux laptop, much love. I was just wondering why on the Windows Binary for VSCodium the "official" login for GitHub Copilot works on my end? Is there some f*ckery because it is a Windows machine and Windows authenticates me anyway like that? |
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Interesting! |
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as of Jun 22 this still works thank you so much |
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This is just amazing. Thanks a lot. The only issue I have right now is that I have to keep logging in to GitHub on VSCodium each time I open it. Any way to fix this problem? |
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Curious, have you got SSH set up for your GitHub account? |
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Yeah it unfortunately makes it very cumbersome, even if you get the access token in one command via a script it's still annoying Edit : That's probably on me, I'm on i3 and din't have a keychain installed, using gnome-keyring it stays logged in even when restarting. |
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Yes, I have, through github-cli |
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Umm, Where should i paste my access token ? (Step 7) |
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AFAIR - Log out and Log back in to Copilot and it should prompt you - that's where you put the access token. |
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thanks |
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On Manjaro Linux (so should work for Arch as well) I found $ sudo pacman -Ql vscodium | grep product.json
vscodium-bin /opt/vscodium-bin/resources/app/product.json |
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Works on Linux Mint, using VSCodium installed from the Ubuntu repository. Thanks @ustas-eth ! SnapIn case anyone installed VSCodium using Snap, you'll need to use a workaround like described here, to edit Rather than doing that I just reinstalled from the VSCodium Ubuntu repository instead. Possible edits to original post@ustas-eth perhaps to clarify step 6 a bit further, As below:
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Done! |
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I forgot to mention a tiny typo at step 7. Missing the "e" on "Paste". Thanks a mil again for these instructions! |
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If you already installed copilot and want to use this wonderful trick, you will first have to sign out from Github using the Sign out option on the bottom left corner (the person button below the setting button). |
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Hi, I have run the following: flatpak --user install -y flathub com.vscodium.codium
flatpak --user override --socket=wayland com.vscodium.codium
flatpak run com.vscodium.codium --install-extension ~/Downloads/GitHub.copilot-1.95.246.vsix
cd ~/.local/share/flatpak/app/com.vscodium.codium/current/active/files/share/codium/resources/app
sed -e 's|"GitHub.copilot":.*|"GitHub.copilot": ["inlineCompletions","inlineCompletionsNew","inlineCompletionsAdditions","textDocumentNotebook","interactive","terminalDataWriteEvent"],|' \
-i.bak product.jsonI had to copy the following libraries in order for the "Sign in with Github to use Github Copilot" to appear:
in If I click on "Sign in with Github to use Github Copilot", I can generate the PAT, copy it to but I get the following error in the Developer console: workbench.desktop.main.js:97 [Extension Host] [ERROR] [default] [2023-07-09T14:39:57.595Z] GitHub Copilot could not connect to server. Extension activation failed: "Cancelled"
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workbench.desktop.main.js:759 Writing login information to the keychain failed with error 'GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name is not activatable'.
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workbench.desktop.main.js:97 [Extension Host] rejected promise not handled within 1 second: Error: User not authorized
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workbench.desktop.main.js:97 [Extension Host] stack trace: Error: User not authorized
at /home/user/.var/app/com.vscodium.codium/data/codium/extensions/github.copilot-1.95.246/extension/src/auth.ts:52:15
at process.copilotToken (node:internal/process/task_queues:96:5)
at forceNormal [as getCopilotToken] (/home/user/.var/app/com.vscodium.codium/data/codium/extensions/github.copilot-1.95.246/extension/src/auth.ts:92:18)
at event (/home/user/.var/app/com.vscodium.codium/data/codium/extensions/github.copilot-1.95.246/extension/src/session.ts:53:28)
at /home/user/.var/app/com.vscodium.codium/data/codium/extensions/github.copilot-1.95.246/extension/src/extension.ts:162:46
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workbench.desktop.main.js:1978 [GitHub.copilot]User not authorized
$onExtensionRuntimeError @ workbench.desktop.main.js:1978
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workbench.desktop.main.js:1978 Error: User not authorized
at /home/user/.var/app/com.vscodium.codium/data/codium/extensions/github.copilot-1.95.246/extension/src/auth.ts:52:15
at process.copilotToken (node:internal/process/task_queues:96:5)
at forceNormal [as getCopilotToken] (/home/user/.var/app/com.vscodium.codium/data/codium/extensions/github.copilot-1.95.246/extension/src/auth.ts:92:18)
at event (/home/user/.var/app/com.vscodium.codium/data/codium/extensions/github.copilot-1.95.246/extension/src/session.ts:53:28)
at /home/user/.var/app/com.vscodium.codium/data/codium/extensions/github.copilot-1.95.246/extension/src/extension.ts:162:46
$onExtensionRuntimeError @ workbench.desktop.main.js:1978
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ee.onmessage @ workbench.desktop.main.js:1642Is an older version required? Thanks |
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Anybody managed to install GitHub Copilot Chat: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=GitHub.copilot-chat? |
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Ow I think I got this: #1753 |
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Still facing issues btw.. Read also my comment here: #1546 (comment) !!! |
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can you make the same for github codespaces? |
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I started to get "Your vscodium installation appears to be corrupt" message. Like this one #723 Anyone else having this issue? |
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It seems that this doesn't work anymore, It worked in the bast by my VSCodium seemed to be corrupt and I updated, now, I am trying to make it work. Copilot doesn't work at all now. Update: Just checked, and in fact, it actually doesn't work anymore with the latest Update. We need to find a new fix. |
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GitHub Copilot and VSCodium no longer works! |
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And it never will? |
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It worked in the past for me.. So that is not true. @c3fr4 |
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Just followed these steps in a new install. Still working here |
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I can't find a way to convince it to let me enter an access token. Is there anywhere I can enter it manually? |
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I followed the instructions 1., 2. and enabled KDE Wallet (for KDE environments) and it worked afterwards... |
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Worked on a fresh install of debian only doing step 1 and 2. |
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Just a small remark to myself in the future, be sure to update the content of |
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Ps ps. to myself: I will move to the edge. Running local LLMs only. |
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Ok, I'm going to sound totally noob, but after reading the whole thread I cannot find where is supposed to be that |
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What about this? #1487 (comment) |
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It seems doesn't work for me. I downloaded the newest version of Github Copilot. Any tried it succcesfully? |
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It worked for me just installing the extension manually from the binary; no need for other tweaks. Ubuntu 24.04. |
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Can you share the version of copilot and Vscodium |
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Sure.
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The only thing not working for me, is git commit generating messages. It seems to worked before. Anyone got a solution? |
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To install copilot go to the extension's page in the vscode marketplace, then go to the Version History tab, and download the latest version (or any other if you prefer). You're gonna get a or click on the 3 dots in the Extensions section, and choose Then just follow the instructions to log into Github as you'd do normally. |
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Thank you, this works on Windows 11 |
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Big thanks! perfect work on Arch Linux |
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@jindongjie do you actually got copilot chat to work too? |
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For new version ,you need a new way: simply install this aur package first: |
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@jindongjie Does not seem to be needed any longer: for me installing the |
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I got the extension to install and auth'd my github account on my Mac, running VSCodium Version: 1.92.1 but still dont have the chat extension to allow me to actually use CoPilot. 
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Works great for anyone on Arch |
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@Yocracra Does not seem to be needed any longer: for me installing the |
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Will you have to redownload the .vsix every time you want to update? Also, it's nice to have easy access to the VSCode marketplace. Just a generally good package to have if you use VSCodium. |
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Where is this folder with the product.json ? I could not find it in my home dir and dont assume it would be anywhere else? Fedora, RPM from repo |
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See Possible paths for the product.json: in the original post |
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The instruction
VSCODIUM_FOLDER/resources/app/product.json. Find theGitHub.copilotand insert the following permission:Optional
If the steps above didn't help (probably because it's time to update your VSCodium), do the following in addition:
device_codeanduser_codein the responseuser_codeYOUR_DEVICE_CODEwith thedevice_codeyou got in step 2):access_tokenin the response (gho_...). Paste it in VSCodium when the Copilot extension requires authorization.Possible paths for the
product.json:/opt/vscodium-bin/resources/app/product.json/usr/share/codium/resources/app/product.json/Applications/VSCodium.app/Contents/Resources/app//snap/codium/current/usr/share/codium/resources/app/product.jsonBeta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
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