How to open vscodium from terminal in linux

Question

I started to use VSCODIUM instead VSCODE cause i want to open source code from my workspace

VSCODIUM is good but i want to start it from terminal, or better, from my file manage "Dolphin"

I searched and o found that the step to start VSCODIUM from terminal is like VSCODE, then:

codium .

but it does not work

Promotive

Are you by chance using the flatpak version of Codium? If yes, you can start it with flatpak run com.vscodium.codium – Antediluvian

Wow it works but i put a dot ahead of your command then it was "flatpak run com.vscodium.codium ." but is there a form a little bit more simplified? – Promotive

You could add an alias to your bashrc file. To do that, you can add alias codium="flatpak run com.vscodium.codium" to ~/.bashrc. Then you can run codium . in the terminal and it should work as you expect. For more details you can read this article or any other article on the topic: linuxize.com/post/how-to-create-bash-aliases – Antediluvian

Thanks a lot Artem, you can answer this question to me vote you and improve your reputation – Promotive

Answer 1

From the docs of Codium.

In MacOS/Windows, go to VisualStudioCode and type CMD/crtl + p, then > and search for "Shell Command: Install 'codium' command in PATH", it will prompt for authorization to configure it within your system, authorize it and you're done.

For Linux, check out this:

When the archive VSCodium-linux--.tar.gz is extracted, the main entry point for VSCodium is ./bin/codium.

then you should be able to create a shortcut (better called symlink) to link that command to a shorter command as 'codium'. You can find how to do it in this link.

Fretful

Feb 2024, Macos 14.3.1, VSCodium 1.86.2 shift + command + p to reveal list of actions with install codium in PATH – Hideout

Answer 2

It seems that you can directly use the command codium in latest versions of VSCodium

Towage