Window goes blank if left idle for a few minutes - shows again when window is resized

[wesonis]

Type: Performance Issue

Immediately after updating to 1.110 I noticed that when I leave a vscode window idle for more than a couple of minutes, the entire window appears greyed out. Resizing the window makes the content re-appear in the window. Cursor still seems to recognize different contexts in the window area (changing from text entry to selection style cursor when cursor moves from general area where the editor would be to the sidebar, etc) so it seems to just be a rendering issue. No disruptions noticed for active servers or other vscode processes.

occurred while running a remote WSL window, but the same behavior has been seen in Windows and tunnels to Apple computers as well.

VS Code version: Code 1.110.0 (0870c2a, 2026-03-04T01:20:28.863Z)
OS version: Windows_NT x64 10.0.26200
Modes:
Remote OS version: Linux x64 6.6.87.2-microsoft-standard-WSL2

System Info

Item	Value
CPUs	12th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-1255U (12 x 2611)
GPU Status	2d_canvas: enabled GPU0: VENDOR= 0x10de, DEVICE=0x1fb7 [NVIDIA T550 Laptop GPU], DRIVER_VENDOR=NVIDIA, DRIVER_VERSION=32.0.15.8216 ACTIVE GPU1: VENDOR= 0x8086, DEVICE=0x46a8 [Intel(R) Iris(R) Xe Graphics], DRIVER_VERSION=32.0.101.7077 GPU2: VENDOR= 0x1414, DEVICE=0x008c [Microsoft Basic Render Driver], DRIVER_VERSION=10.0.26100.7309 Machine model name: Machine model version: direct_rendering_display_compositor: disabled_off_ok gpu_compositing: enabled multiple_raster_threads: enabled_on opengl: enabled_on rasterization: enabled raw_draw: disabled_off_ok skia_graphite: disabled_off trees_in_viz: disabled_off video_decode: enabled video_encode: enabled webgl: enabled webgl2: enabled webgpu: enabled webnn: disabled_off
Load (avg)	undefined
Memory (System)	63.69GB (43.36GB free)
Process Argv
Screen Reader	no
VM	0%

Item	Value
Remote	WSL: Ubuntu-24.04
OS	Linux x64 6.6.87.2-microsoft-standard-WSL2
CPUs	12th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-1255U (8 x 0)
Memory (System)	15.25GB (13.22GB free)
VM	0%

Process Info

CPU %	Mem MB	   PID	Process
    0	   192	 32912	code
    0	   131	  1044	file-watcher [1]
    0	   163	  6816	extension-host [1]
    0	   113	 26052	     electron-nodejs (wslDaemon.js)
    0	   167	  9784	   window
    0	   123	 29168	pty-host
    0	   447	 32756	   gpu-process
    0	   514	 33100	window [1] (Release Notes: 1.110.0 - DEM_Eigen [WSL: Ubuntu-24.04] - cpp - Visual Studio Code)
    0	   196	 37972	shared-process
    0	    19	 16040	     "c:\Users\sonis\AppData\Local\Programs\Microsoft VS Code\bin\code-tunnel.exe" tunnel --accept-server-license-terms --log info --name Will_S --parent-process-id 37972
    0	     8	 21600	       C:\WINDOWS\system32\conhost.exe 0x4
    0	    55	 41844	   utility-network-service

Remote: WSL: Ubuntu-24.04
CPU %	Mem MB	   PID	Process
    1	   187	  1778	remote-server
    0	    62	  3834	   ptyHost
    0	     0	 17728	     /usr/bin/zsh -i
    0	    62	 16660	   fileWatcher
    0	   656	 16682	   extension-host
    0	    31	 16698	     /home/sonis/.vscode-server/extensions/openai.chatgpt-26.304.20706-linux-x64/bin/linux-x86_64/codex app-server --analytics-default-enabled
    0	    47	 16786	     /home/sonis/.vscode-server/bin/0870c2a0c7c0564e7631bfed2675573a94ba4455/node /home/sonis/.vscode-server/bin/0870c2a0c7c0564e7631bfed2675573a94ba4455/extensions/markdown-language-features/dist/serverWorkerMain --node-ipc --clientProcessId=16682
    0	   531	 16797	     /home/sonis/.vscode-server/data/User/globalStorage/llvm-vs-code-extensions.vscode-clangd/install/21.1.8/clangd_21.1.8/bin/clangd --compile-commands-dir=build/Debug --header-insertion=never
    0	    47	 16851	     /home/sonis/.vscode-server/bin/0870c2a0c7c0564e7631bfed2675573a94ba4455/node /home/sonis/.vscode-server/bin/0870c2a0c7c0564e7631bfed2675573a94ba4455/extensions/json-language-features/server/dist/node/jsonServerMain --node-ipc --clientProcessId=16682
    0	    62	 16961	     /home/sonis/.vscode-server/bin/0870c2a0c7c0564e7631bfed2675573a94ba4455/node /home/sonis/.vscode-server/extensions/github.vscode-github-actions-0.31.0/dist/server-node.js --node-ipc --clientProcessId=16682
    0	     0	 18662	   /bin/sh -c /usr/bin/ps -ax -o pid=,ppid=,pcpu=,pmem=,command=
    0	     0	 18663	     /usr/bin/ps -ax -o pid=,ppid=,pcpu=,pmem=,command=

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pdf	tom	1.2.2

(2 theme extensions excluded)