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Pacharapol Withayasakpunt • • Edited

I absolutely have to use Docker, when there are build dependencies, like platform specific installs, and Makefiles. Like Golang sometimes, and native postgresql extensions.

I wonder if I can use Docker to run non-web GUI apps. I want to avoid VirtualBox.

Of course, I realize that VSCode can be dockerized, but I haven't tried it.

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Thomas Leon Highbaugh •

x11docker in case turning on the socket is a little much for you which I wouldn't blame you for but Jonathan's solution is rather elegant

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Pacharapol Withayasakpunt • • Edited

Thanks, it works. Although I need to install x11docker for AUR, instead of classic installation.

yay -S x11docker
x11docker --update-master
docker pull x11docker/kaptain
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Pacharapol Withayasakpunt • • Edited

My first x11docker project. I cannot run with library/debian for x11docker/lxde, though.

FROM x11docker/lxqt
RUN apt-get update
RUN apt-get install -y wget build-essential bzip2 xdg-utils
RUN wget -q https://github.com/ankitects/anki/releases/download/2.1.26/anki-2.1.26-linux-amd64.tar.bz2
RUN tar -xf anki-2.1.26-linux-amd64.tar.bz2
RUN cd anki-2.1.26-linux-amd64 && make && make install

RUN apt-get install -y locales libnss3 mpv
RUN sed -i '/en_US.UTF-8/s/^#//g' /etc/locale.gen
RUN locale-gen
ENV LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
ENV LANG=en_US.UTF-8
ENV LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8
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#!/bin/sh

x11docker \
    --xpra --clipboard --pulseaudio --no-entrypoint --home=$PWD/home \
    -- \
    -- patarapolw/anki2.1.26 anki
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Gealber Morales •

This is very interesting, I've never try it myself 🙂.

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Jonathan Boudreau •

You can easily do this on Linux by mounting the x11 socket. For other platforms it isn't so simple.

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Pacharapol Withayasakpunt • • Edited

Please elaborate / suggest an article...

Like Xorg on different ports?

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Jonathan Boudreau •

You can use the same Xorg instance:

docker run --rm -ti -e DISPLAY -v /tmp/.X11-unix:/tmp/.X11-unix ubuntu:focal bash
apt update
apt install -y peek
peek
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Pacharapol Withayasakpunt • • Edited 
root@1c26d4121e74:/# peek
No protocol specified

(peek:3525): Gtk-WARNING **: 10:24:14.930: cannot open display: :0
root@1c26d4121e74:/#
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I am on GNOME40 on Xorg.

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Jonathan Boudreau •

Maybe its related to me being on rootless docker? Might be that you need to create a user with the same uid as the host for your case.