* Container howto for X11?
@ 2016-07-03 18:40 Pjotr Prins
2016-07-03 22:12 ` Thompson, David
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From: Pjotr Prins @ 2016-07-03 18:40 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Ludovic Courtès; +Cc: guix-devel
Is there a container howto for X11 applications? I would like to run
the browser in a Guix container. Fun with a serious note.
Pj.
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* Re: Container howto for X11?
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
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From: Thompson, David @ 2016-07-03 22:12 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Pjotr Prins; +Cc: guix-devel
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 22:12 ` Thompson, David
@ 2016-07-04 6:29 ` Pjotr Prins
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From: Pjotr Prins @ 2016-07-04 6:29 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Thompson, David; +Cc: guix-devel
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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