From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pjotr Prins Subject: Re: Container howto for X11? Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2016 08:29:07 +0200 Message-ID: <20160704062907.GA10965@thebird.nl> References: <20160703184012.GA9057@thebird.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51261) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bJxQc-00067v-Rf for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Jul 2016 02:32:24 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bJxQZ-0000RI-NG for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Jul 2016 02:32:22 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" 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 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 > --