Xlib: extension “XInputExtension” missing on display “:1” Atom Ubuntu

Question

I have an Amazon EC2 instance that runs Ubuntu 16.04 server. I installed atom and for some reason I am not able to start Atom. Everytime I start atom with the command line I see

Answer 1

This is good in general if you use headless VM;

cd /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/
cp libxcb.so.1 libxcb.so.1.bak
sudo sed -i 's/BIG-REQUESTS/_IG-REQUESTS/' libxcb.so.1

It will fix all apps with same error