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Re: Container howto for X11?
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Thompson, David |
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Re: Container howto for X11? |
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Sun, 3 Jul 2016 18:12:07 -0400 |
On Sun, Jul 3, 2016 at 2:40 PM, Pjotr Prins <address@hidden> wrote:
> Is there a container howto for X11 applications? I would like to run
> the browser in a Guix container. Fun with a serious note.
If you share the X11 socket file and set $DISPLAY to the right value,
then you should be able to make that happen:
guix environment --container --network --share=/tmp/.X11-unix
--ad-hoc icecat
export DISPLAY=":0.0"
icecat
Do note that the above code gives icecat full access to the X11 server
and the host's network interfaces, so it's not exactly a locked down
environment.
Perhaps we could use a command line switch to automatically do this
sort of thing.
- Dave