Comments on: How to Install Visual Studio Code on Linux

By: Tony

Tony — Wed, 03 May 2023 21:43:01 +0000

Spot on! I just flipped an aging Microsoft Surface 4 Pro to Ubuntu with Visual Studio Code as my first objective. Your install notes worked perfectly. Thanks for the help! ;-)

By: Jacob

Jacob — Thu, 09 Mar 2023 18:09:00 +0000

The perfect tutorial really helped me install Visual Studio to Linux Mint.

By: M. Koch

M. Koch — Tue, 24 May 2022 11:35:45 +0000

Please NEVER EVER use `xhost +`. This allows anybody who has IP access to the machine that runs the X-server to grab and send content to your X-Server, hence anything you type anywhere can be grabbed and stored without anybody noticing it. Instead, use a combination of the `xauth list` and `xauth add` command, to allow only dedicated access to the X-Server. So in your example, the webtop owner should do a `xauth list` in a terminal that sits on the Xserver and the user which runs the vscode needs to do a `xauth add` to access the display. Much more secure ...

By: devpark

devpark — Mon, 07 Feb 2022 06:31:58 +0000

Attempted this solution in a “webtop” (vscode via xterm to a browser view of docker instance)
Env: Rocky8 host, ubuntu-mate container

Problem:
Start code… error
No protocol specified
[8732:0207/061514.043644:ERROR:browser_main_loop.cc(1402)] Unable to open X display.
Segmentation fault

Solution:
in the webtop shell
xhost +

Refs & honors
This guy figured it out

By: James Kiarie

James Kiarie — Mon, 04 Oct 2021 19:45:28 +0000

In reply to Colin Sare-Soar.

Way to go Colin Sare! I’m glad you found the guide beneficial.