docker-wine VS x11docker

Docker container This alternative would eat more resources than necessary as an additional OS would be running in the background. I've also noticed that displaying the application in X11/Wayland this way seems to introduce an overhead if no GPU is shared with the container (which is negligible with the proper configuration): https://github.com/scottyhardy/docker-wine

i do not know much about docker images so i may not be of much help here but i think you should check out this project to see if it may give you a baseline idea https://github.com/scottyhardy/docker-wine

For those not using windows (like Linux or Mac), you can use docker + wine, and works great! =) (If you need help, let me know so I can explain with more details.)

I don't know anything about Xwayland, but according there's this sentence in this socat writeup:

> If you want to access an X server that does not provide -listen tcp (Xwayland) or just did not have enabled it during startup (like most likely your host Xorg), you can use socat to provide TCP/IP access.

https://github.com/mviereck/x11docker/wiki/How-to-access-X-o...

I've run into this before, but I never ended up using it: https://github.com/mviereck/x11docker

I managed to “fix” the error log messages by following this guide: https://github.com/mviereck/x11docker/wiki/How-to-connect-container-to-DBus-from-host

at least, I'd suggest you take a look at https://github.com/mviereck/x11docker/issues/418

x11docker would be a good starting point to see what is possible: https://github.com/mviereck/x11docker and in particular https://github.com/mviereck/x11docker/wiki/Display-manager-entry-for-x11docker .

Instead of using a homegrown solution, check out x11docker. It attempts to safely allow you to use x inside a container. There are certain cases where a malicious actor could take over your computer if you don't mount the relevant things safely.

This is what I use x11docker for!

It's straighforward to have your container talk to Xorg directly but for a better experience take a look at https://github.com/mviereck/x11docker as it does the heavy lifting regarding GPU, sounds, devices, etc.