Note that this works in the Theia Dev Electron app:

@sgraband What application have you been using to replicate this? I was able to replicate it using the latest TheiaIDE.

See also #13369.

Thanks for the fast reply. I replicated it with Theia IDE 1.53.100 as well(also updated the ticket).

I will take a detailed look at the PR you linked in a minute, but would you expect this to work automatically with any product or are there some requirements on the products side to configure this/install the plugins in a certain way?

It might be that the localDir call here behaves somehow unexpected in a packaged environment. Generally, there is no configuration necessary for this feature to work.

@sgraband Could you provide us with some more information on how your plugins setup is? Do you set the --plugins option or the THEIA_DEFAULT_PLUGINS env variable? Are you installing some plugins manually before connecting with the container? Is it a pacakges electron distribution with an asar file?

@jonah-iden FYI I believe this is simply reproducible with the Theia IDE available from our website. No additional options necessary.

@msujew ok thanks will try it out

@jonah-iden. Yes i was reporting this straight from the Theia IDE. Thanks for looking into it.