From: Pjotr Prins <pjotr.public12@thebird.nl>
To: "Thompson, David" <dthompson2@worcester.edu>
Cc: guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Container howto for X11?
Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2016 08:29:07 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160704062907.GA10965@thebird.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJ=RwfZ09h49tkcxLRwrq59+wKdCcXt1xE2vjKH-4cb-WPDxCw@mail.gmail.com>
Awesome, it works a charm :)
On Sun, Jul 03, 2016 at 06:12:07PM -0400, Thompson, David wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 3, 2016 at 2:40 PM, Pjotr Prins <pjotr.public12@thebird.nl> 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
>
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2016-07-03 18:40 Container howto for X11? Pjotr Prins
2016-07-03 22:12 ` Thompson, David
2016-07-04 6:29 ` Pjotr Prins [this message]
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