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Virtual Key Mapper: local sign-in

Virtual Key Mapper: local sign-in

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Relays your local vkm sign-in into dev containers and other remote windows; nothing is stored there.
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Launch VS Code Quick Open (Ctrl+P), paste the following command, and press enter.
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Virtual Key Mapper: local sign-in

Install this in your local VS Code (it always runs on your own computer, also for dev container and SSH windows). It lets the Virtual Key Mapper extension in a remote window use the sign-in of your local vkm CLI:

  • the remote side only ever receives short-lived access tokens, on request;
  • the refresh grant stays in your local OS vault;
  • no background service, no network port: requests travel through VS Code itself;
  • the remote window's profile is created from your local one, including its own label definitions and output overrides and a central rules URL (central rules in a local file cannot be copied; the remote window then warns that the organisation's label definitions are missing there).

Settings (in your local user settings): vkm.localCommand, how to run the local CLI, e.g. ["C:\\path\\to\\venv\\Scripts\\python.exe", "-m", "virtual_key_mapper"] (empty: the vkm.command user setting, else vkm from PATH); and vkm.localProfiles, the local profiles remote windows may use (empty: only the default profile; the first entry is used when a window names none). Requests for any other profile are refused, whatever the container or workspace asks for.

"Virtual Key Mapper: Sign in on this computer" runs vkm login locally; remote windows offer it when the local sign-in is missing or expired.

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