Get VSCode working on XFCE

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#Install XFCE4
sudo apt install xfce4
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:x2go/stable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install x2goserver x2goserver-xsession

#Intsall VSCode
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-desktop/ubuntu-make
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-make
umake ide visual-studio-code

Hack worked vscode works via xrdp in Ubuntu MATE 16.04:

make a backup first
sudo sed -i 's/BIG-REQUESTS/_IG-REQUESTS/' /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxcb.so.1

https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/3451