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Distrobox is handy for this: https://github.com/89luca89/distrobox
It just lets you reuse any docker image on your desktop (both podman and docker), and has some nice features like the ability to create a launcher shortcut on the host and transparently mapping your home directory. I switched to it full time, all my CLI work is just done in a container, and it's pretty transparent.
Additional reading on this topic if you fancy it. This is the first one I read regarding docker for GUI apps
https://blog.jessfraz.com/post/docker-containers-on-the-desk...
Oh hey, I just automated this a bit to run the Linux version Scantailor Advanced on a Mac. I contributed it back upstream. It's not too complicated, but it took a while to get it working. https://github.com/ryanfb/docker_scantailor
I know this isn't the focus of the article, but this license provision in a linked project is outright strange.
>By using this software you agree that the following non-PII (non personally identifiable information) data will be collected, processed and used by the maintainers for the purpose of improving the docker-android project. Anonymisation with respect of the IP address means that only the first two octets of the IP address are collected.
https://github.com/budtmo/docker-android/blob/master/LICENSE...
How can you call a project Apache when you're forcing people to pay via their data ? Why is their no opt out option?
Absent that this seems like a great QA automation tool. Or a Tinder bot farm...
Because Flatpak imposes some design choices that are... less than optimal for porting existing applications, and if you ask them to change maintainers will insist this is the way to go.
They have told users that if they want, for instance, Jetbrains IDEs to work, they should simply get a Job at Jetbrains and convince them to rewrite their entire IDE to support the flatpak model.[1]
This is the reason I avoid distros with Flathub enabled by default. Half the software on there is broken in some pretty subtantial way, and nobody at Flatpak or Flathub cares. They really need to realize they're not Apple, they simply can't tell everyone to do things their way and hope to build a working and reliable ecosystem.
[1]: https://github.com/flathub/com.jetbrains.IntelliJ-IDEA-Commu...
Because Flatpak imposes some design choices that are... less than optimal for porting existing applications, and if you ask them to change maintainers will insist this is the way to go.
They have told users that if they want, for instance, Jetbrains IDEs to work, they should simply get a Job at Jetbrains and convince them to rewrite their entire IDE to support the flatpak model.[1]
This is the reason I avoid distros with Flathub enabled by default. Half the software on there is broken in some pretty subtantial way, and nobody at Flatpak or Flathub cares. They really need to realize they're not Apple, they simply can't tell everyone to do things their way and hope to build a working and reliable ecosystem.
[1]: https://github.com/flathub/com.jetbrains.IntelliJ-IDEA-Commu...
I'm doing this since quite a while and I am happy with this approach, especially with applications that tend to pollute my machine in every folder possible, like IntelliJ:
This is also supported directly in VSCode Dev Containers by using just a feature switch[1]
[1] https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-dev-containers/blob/main...
It sounds like you missed the x11vnc part of this. You connect into the container using vnc, not x11. If you want to see a working example of a gui app running successfully in docker, check out https://github.com/jlesage/docker-handbrake
I use some projects that use vnc and also have setup novnc on them..
Here’s an example of one, https://github.com/accetto/ubuntu-vnc-xfce-g3
Novnc just allows accessing things via a browser too. I use it for quick checks but VNC when I want a client