macOS Sierra: background artifacts

[maxence-charriere]

• VSCode Version: Code 1.5.2 (66f37fd, 2016-09-12T13:05:12.065Z)
• OS Version: Darwin x64 16.0.0

Steps to Reproduce:

1. just launch Visual studio on macOS Sierra

[maxence-charriere]

[bpasero]

@maxence-charriere can you try if this reproduces with our insider build too?
You can give our preview releases a try from: http://code.visualstudio.com/Download#insiders

[maxence-charriere]

[maxence-charriere]

ok this one on Version 1.6.0-insider (1.6.0-insider):

[jaysylvester]

I'm seeing this as well.

Not sure if this helps, but I'm also seeing a similar problem in Chrome, which I submitted to them also. Screenshot below is Daring Fireball in Safari vs. Chrome:

[mrmlnc]

Hello, Chrome bug:

• Atom Dark Layout Issue on MacOS Sierra GM atom/atom#12634
• Weird Background Color electron/electron#7304

[bpasero]

Thanks for linking the related issues here. The related chrome bug is: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=633805

[bpasero]

@maxence-charriere @jaysylvester that issue talks about a possible fix using --force-gpu-rasterization, did you try that? maybe pass it to the starting of code?

[jaysylvester]

@bpasero Just tried --force-gpu-rasterization with VS Code and that fixes it.