autolaunch Xquartz on mac

Author: sam-mfb

launch_X.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+# Check if the operating system is macOS
+if [[ "$(uname)" != "Darwin" ]]; then
+    echo "This script is designed to run on macOS only."
+    exit 1
+fi
+
+# Check if XQuartz is installed
+if ! command -v Xquartz &> /dev/null && ! command -v xterm &> /dev/null; then
+    echo "XQuartz is not installed."
+    echo "You can install XQuartz from: https://www.xquartz.org/"
+    echo "After installation, please rerun this script."
+    exit 1
+fi
+
+echo "Launching XQuartz (if not open already)..."
+open -a XQuartz
+sleep 2
+echo "Configuring xhost for localhost"
+xterm -e "xhost +localhost"
+sleep 2
+echo "Killing any xterm sessions..."
+pkill -x xterm
+echo "Done"

run-func.sh

@@ -32,6 +32,8 @@ if [[ "$(docker images -q ${IMAGE_TAG} 2> /dev/null)" == "" ]]; then
     docker build --pull --build-arg GIT_REPO=${GIT_REPO} --target ${IMAGE_TARGET} -t ${IMAGE_TAG} .
 fi
 
+./launch_X.sh
+
 # run container if not created, otherwise attach to existing
 if [[ "$(docker container ls -qa --filter name=${CONTAINER_NAME} 2> /dev/null)" == "" ]]; then
     echo "Creating and running container..."