Support Linux "Niri" desktop environment for password storage / OSCrypt backend

[josh-sukheja]

Does this issue occur when all extensions are disabled?: Yes

• VS Code Version: 1.107.1
• OS Version: NixOS: 26.05.20260102.fb7944c (Yarara), Linux 6.18.0 #1-NixOS SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC x86_64 GNU/Linux

Steps to Reproduce:

I am running the Niri compositor / almost-desktop-environment. I have gnome-keyring installed and use Gnome Display Manager for login. I have confirmed gnome-keyring is running via ps aux | grep gnome-keyring.

When I run VSCode and try to sign in with my github account to sync settings, I can login correctly in the browser and get sent back to VSCode. But I see this error popup:

When I follow the troubleshooting steps online, I get these verbose logs:

[256176:0104/144853.840039:VERBOSE1:components/os_crypt/sync/key_storage_util_linux.cc:46] Password storage detected desktop environment: (unknown)
[256176:0104/144856.221683:VERBOSE1:components/os_crypt/sync/key_storage_util_linux.cc:46] Password storage detected desktop environment: (unknown)
[256176:0104/144856.221699:VERBOSE1:components/os_crypt/sync/key_storage_linux.cc:116] Selected backend for OSCrypt: BASIC_TEXT
[256176:0104/144856.221725:VERBOSE1:components/os_crypt/sync/key_storage_linux.cc:135] OSCrypt did not initialize a backend.

These same troubleshooting steps say to open an issue here for unknown desktop environments. So here I am 🙂

Finally, when I run code --password-store="gnome-libsecret". I can successfully sign in with settings sync, no issues at all.

[josh-sukheja]

Just saw there was an existing issue for collecting these errors, so I've also commented there #187338 (comment).

Happy to close this issue if needed.

[TylerLeonhardt]

/duplicate #187338

[vs-code-engineering]

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