The Visual Studio Code is a free IDE that Microsoft created for Windows, Linux and MacOS. It integrated GIT functions, you can also add various extensions to make it more useful.

It is powerful and easy to use. The problem for me initially was that it doesn’t seem to run in VNC sessions (I am using Ubuntu 14). Here are the message if I run using “code –verbose”.

 

I did find a working solution over internet. Kudos to @rcarmo.

https://www.bountysource.com/issues/31271515-vs-code-not-working-on-ubuntu-when-connected-using-xrdp

Here is a summary of  the changes needed:

And I created an alias to start code in my .bashrc

After that it works great.

If you are interested in Visual Studio Code, you can check it out at their official website.




How to Use Visual Studio Code in Ubuntu VNC Session?
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  • May 28, 2017 at 12:16 am
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    Thank you very much. This worked. I tried several places but what you have above worked.

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