dotfiles VS firejail

Oh you'd still use a Git repository (e.g. like I do here), stow just takes care of creating the necessary symbolic links (and skipping those that already exist).

I experimented a bit with running rust-analyzer under Bubblewrap when using it through NeoVim's LSP integration (see here). Overall it's doable, but it's a tedious process of finding out what needs to write and where, what capabilities you need, etc. I don't see this seeing adoption unless it becomes a first-class feature of the tool in question.

You can also use Bubblewrap, but getting it up and running requires a lot more fiddling around. For example, this is what I use to isolate Zoom from the rest of my system: https://gitlab.com/yorickpeterse/dotfiles/-/blob/0a0492c78b6...

In my case I'm using Bubblewrap because Firejail was only used for Zoom, and this felt a bit of a waste considering Bubblewrap was already installed.

This is implemented using some custom Lua code.

There's no first-class API for this. I use this setup. This is OK, though I only have two abbreviations, and it does feel a bit overkill for just that.

I've been using neovim-remote for quite some time, and it works perfectly fine. Here is what I use to open NeoVim as usual outside of an existing NeoVim session, and inside the existing session whenever I run nvim from NeoVim's terminal emulator.

You can use this code I wrote for that. You then hook it up like this.

Adjust the icons LSP uses for various symbol types like this. If you leave this out, you need to adjust these lines to use the correct text/icons instead.

The documentation is there, but it's a bit lacking/confusing here and there. It's also mostly foundational work, and you still need to cobble things together (either manually or using a plugin).

With that said, you can build things quite nicely with it. For example, I have a custom linter setup, custom loclist/quickfix list formatting and populating from LSP data, and a bunch of other things; all using the foundational work coming in NeoVim 0.5.

If anybody is curious, you can find my NeoVim configuration here: https://gitlab.com/yorickpeterse/dotfiles/-/tree/master/dotf...

p.s. In case anybody wonders "why Lua?", for me this mostly comes down to this: I hate Lua, but I hate Vimscript even more.

bubblewrap is designed as a low-level too. There is nothing quick and dirty about it. It disallows everything by default and you have to be explicit about what you want to share with the host. If your application needs complex permissions/resources, then you will need to have a complex bubblewrap command line.

Once you have figured out which permissions/resources you need for a given program, you can wrap the command line invocation in a shell script.

If you want other people to do the work of defining permissions/resources, then have a look at firejail: https://github.com/netblue30/firejail

Firejail is cool: https://github.com/netblue30/firejail

Linux namespaces/cgroups but nowhere near as heavy as Docker.

I use it when I want to limit the memory of a Python script:

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Firejail can also be a useful option, though no good if you're on Mac https://firejail.wordpress.com/

Uses the same Linux primitives as docker etc, but can be a bit more ergonomic for this use case

Firejail, Flatpak (which uses Bubblewrap under the hood), and Snap (which uses AppArmor) all use the same underlying technology: Linux namespaces.

This question comes up a lot, and has been answered here: https://github.com/netblue30/firejail/wiki/Frequently-Asked-...

TL;DR: Firejail has much more comprehensive features than Flatpak (Bubblewrap). Firejail also has more comprehensive network support, support for AppArmor and SELinux, and easier seccomp filtering.

Compared to Snap (which uses AppArmor), Firejail is compatible with AppArmor and again goes above and beyond with a lot of additional features.

Wonderful little tool, too bad you must chain various exec calling tools to get cgroups (a bit akin to `ionice ... nice ... cmd`) and Linux users namespaces can't allow UNIX sockets while preventing network access (I think?).

Migrated from Firejail when its complexity annoyed me too much and I hit https://github.com/netblue30/firejail/issues/3001 (Firejail doesn't like parens or brackets in --put/--get parameters) to a badly NIH version using bwrap and bash to have "profiles":

Firejail does this. The profile database is the two "profile" directories in https://github.com/netblue30/firejail/tree/master/etc

What do you mean by a Firefox container? Do you mean FireJail?