Debugging GUI Applications in a GitHub Codespace

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Shows how to debug a Linux GUI app running inside a GitHub Codespace from Windows by forwarding X11 over SSH through WSL so the window renders locally. Steps: create the codespace, generate an SSH key named codespaces.auto and add it to GitHub, use gh codespace ssh (with -XY) to establish X11 forwarding, install the X/X11 package in the dev container, set the DISPLAY value in devcontainer.json, rebuild the container and reestablish SSH, then set breakpoints and debug the live GUI.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 1:00Diagram
3. 2:45Steps
4. 3:22Example
5. 13:35Recap

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