A AVD launcher solving this problem: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/36189393/android-studio-avd-error-launching

avd_selection.py

#!/bin/python3
import os

os.system('cd ~/Android/Sdk/tools')

AVDs = [file.split('.')[0] for file in os.listdir(os.path.expanduser('~/.android/avd/')) if file.split('.')[len(file.split('.'))-1] == 'ini']

i = 0
for avd in AVDs:
	i += 1
	print("{0}. {1}".format(i, avd))

selection = int(input("Type in the number of the AVD you wish to launch: "))
os.system("LD_PRELOAD='/usr/$LIB/libstdc++.so.6' DISPLAY=:0 ./emulator -avd {}".format(AVDs[selection-1]))