devcontainers / devcontainers/cli
X11 works with container launched via VSCode but not launched via devcontainers/cli
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Description
I have a script called `devshell` (relevant code below), which is intended to start the devcontainer if not always running, then give you a shell into the container.
When I start the container _in VSCode_, then in a separate terminal (outside vscode) run devshell, I can launch a GUI application like xterm no problem.
If instead, I stop VSCode and the running devcontainer, then run the `devshell` script below, `xterm` and other X11 applications do not work. It seems to me `devcontainer up` does something different than vscode itself when preparing the container for execution.
Here is the relevant except of `devshell` (the only missing contents are boilerplate setup and making sure we are in the right directory, etc):
```
devcontainer up --workspace-folder .
WORKDIR=/workspaces/${REPONAME}
CONTAINER_NAME=${REPONAME}_devcontainer
# Run a shell in the container
docker exec -it -e DISPLAY=":0" -w ${WORKDIR} ${CONTAINER_NAME} /bin/bash "$@"
```
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