Known issues

This page will provide a summary of known issues marked "upstream" (i.e. we cannot workaround/fix them in VS Code sources)

Smooth scrolling using laptop's touchpad on Windows

Scrolling with two fingers on the touchpad feels "janky" (on Windows Precision drivers). The root cause lies within Electron/Chromium and the way they convert trackpad gestures to mousewheel events.

• First reported in VSCode Version: 1.5.3
• https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/13612
• https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/12637

Confirmed workaround reported by @alexpaluzzi

During my testing, I discovered that the lag occurs if you start VS Code maximized. I thought maybe I was going crazy, but all I did was restore the window and then re-maximize it and all of the scroll jank was gone.

Possible workaround reported by davidstoneham

Staring vscode with the flag "--disable-gpu" fixes the issue for me

Possible workaround reported by alexey-kozlenkov

If I run VSCode as an administrator, then scrolling does not work. If I run VSCode just as it is, scrolling does work.

Possible workaround reported by rcdmk

I have another trick that does work as long as I keep focus on the VS code window:

1. Tap with tree fingers, so Search/Cortana pannel shows up to the left of screen.
2. Swipe with two fingers over the VS code window and notice that the document does scroll