I want to use a shortcut to open up a specific folder in Visual Studio Code in a new window. I am on Fedora with Gnome Shell and have tried the integrated shortcut manager that can be found in the settings. When I define a shortcut with the command code -n ~/path/to/folder, Visual Studio opens a new file with the name folder. When I run the same command in the terminal it works as expected, i.e. a new window is opened in the specified folder.
Turns out ~ cannot be used in this context, so providing an absolute path fixed the issue.