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Run Atom / Visual Studio Code on Ubuntu via RDP
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workflow.sh
# Error before fixing:
# Xlib: extension "XInputExtension" missing on display ":10.0".
# Xlib: extension "XInputExtension" missing on display ":10.0".
#Find Atom / VS Code installation folder, e.g. /usr/share/atom or /usr/share/code
dpkg -L atom
dpgk -L visual-studio-code
#Find libxcb1 installation folder, e.g. /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxcb.so.1
dpkg -L libxcb1
#copy libxcb1 to atom installation folder
cd /usr/share/atom
cd /usr/share/code
sudo cp /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxcb.so.1 .
#fix libxcb1 (at your own risk)
sudo sed -i 's/BIG-REQUESTS/_IG-REQUESTS/' libxcb.so.1
# try to run atom again
@CedricL46
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Great gist, worked fine ! Thank you for sharing 🥇

@byque
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byque commented Mar 26, 2018

I've been looking for a fix for days and you just solved it! Thank you very much @AlexZeitler. If anyone reads this, this fix works with vnc4server in Google Cloud Platform compute instances.

@paulo-sargaco-dxc
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Thank you, Alex. I had practically given up on using Atom on my Ubuntu VM!

@zitoss
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zitoss commented Jul 30, 2018

It helps me as well! Thank you very much, Alex.

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sbcrumb commented Aug 14, 2018

I was able to get this to work however my atom install was /opt/atom. Ubuntu 16.04

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