devcontainer: handle hosts without X11 (#29537)

* Setup xauthority link on host in initializeCommand

* Create a dummy xauthority if it does no exist on host machine

* Remove xauthority line from ci test
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Kacper Rączy
2023-08-23 10:26:38 -07:00
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#!/usr/bin/env bash
# setup links to Xauthority
XAUTHORITY_LINK=".devcontainer/.Xauthority"
rm -f $XAUTHORITY_LINK
if [[ -z $XAUTHORITY ]]; then
echo "XAUTHORITY not set. Fallback to ~/.Xauthority ..."
if ! [[ -f $HOME/.Xauthority ]]; then
echo "~/.XAuthority file does not exist. GUI tools may not work properly."
touch $XAUTHORITY_LINK # dummy file to satisfy container volume mount
else
ln -sf $HOME/.Xauthority $XAUTHORITY_LINK
fi
else
ln -sf $XAUTHORITY $XAUTHORITY_LINK
fi