Changes between Version 17 and Version 18 of Usage/Docker

Timestamp:

11/23/16 11:13:55 (5 years ago)

Author:

mviereck

Comment:

Added infos and link to x11docker, providing a simple solution to use xpra with docker

Usage/Docker

@@ -9 +9 @@
 Xpra and docker can be used to isolate applications from unix user accounts.
 
-Regular unix applications have full access to '''all the files''' in the user's home directory.
+Depending on chosen setup, regular unix applications can have full access to '''all the files''' in the user's home directory.
 
 For example, it can be used to constrain a web browser (or a proprietary application like Skype) to the resource it really needs to run and no more.
@@ -19 +19 @@
 
 * [http://docker.io/ Docker]
+* [https://github.com/mviereck/x11docker x11docker] can run GUI applications in docker images using xpra. It has no dependencies inside of docker images.
 * [https://subgraph.com/sgos/graph/index.en.html OZ] doesn't use Docker but runs applications in containers and hooks them up to X11 using xpra.
 * [https://github.com/subuser-security/subuser Subuser] tries to wrap the solution to make it more easily accessible - the [http://subuser.org/news/0.3.html 0.3] release adds XPRA support.
@@ -36 +37 @@
 Your options are:
 * using a TCP socket or running an SSH server in the container - neither are very practical
+* using x11docker on host, you can run GUI applications in docker images like in this example:
+{{{x11docker --xpra x11docker/lxde pcmanfm}}} 
 * sharing the xpra socket directory between the host and the container. To do this you have multiple options:
  * bind mount the directory containing the socket ({{{.xpra}}} or {{{/tmp}}} usually)