diff --git a/home-manager/fred.nix b/home-manager/fred.nix
index b3276d8..3a7535c 100644
--- a/home-manager/fred.nix
+++ b/home-manager/fred.nix
@@ -54,15 +54,18 @@ in
     # Wrap codium so user-installed extension native addons (.node files from
     # npm) can find libstdc++.so.6 — those binaries have empty RPATHs and
     # Electron's patched interpreter won't pick up nix-ld's stubs.
-    package = pkgs.symlinkJoin {
-      name = "vscodium";
-      paths = [ pkgs.vscodium ];
-      nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgs.makeWrapper ];
-      postBuild = ''
-        wrapProgram $out/bin/codium \
-          --prefix LD_LIBRARY_PATH : "${pkgs.lib.makeLibraryPath [ pkgs.stdenv.cc.cc.lib ]}"
-      '';
-    };
+    # The `// { pname; version }` forwards those attrs so programs.vscode's
+    # module (which reads cfg.package.pname) can still identify the variant.
+    package =
+      let base = pkgs.symlinkJoin {
+        name = "vscodium";
+        paths = [ pkgs.vscodium ];
+        nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgs.makeWrapper ];
+        postBuild = ''
+          wrapProgram $out/bin/codium \
+            --prefix LD_LIBRARY_PATH : "${pkgs.lib.makeLibraryPath [ pkgs.stdenv.cc.cc.lib ]}"
+        '';
+      }; in base // { inherit (pkgs.vscodium) pname version; };
     mutableExtensionsDir = true;
     profiles.default.userSettings = {
       "window.menuBarVisibility" = "compact";