X11docker Alternatives

Reviews and mentions

• Severely Lagging Ubuntu 20.04 , Please Suggest Fix or Replacement Suggestion
  reddit.com/r/linuxquestions | 2021-10-14

  Going with docker might be easier, because there's x11docker. You'll need to write a Dockerfile that installs dependencies and builds your application, which might seem daunting at first, but is very useful for a developer to have a reproducible build process, and that's what it provides.

• Harden and secure browsers in containers, with GUI
  news.ycombinator.com | 2021-10-11
• My first docker container from an app market. How do I use this?
  reddit.com/r/docker | 2021-10-07

  You can run desktop GUI apps via an X socket - https://github.com/mviereck/x11docker is an implementation to make that easier. You won't find many images out of the box that will have a GUI - it very quickly comes to odds with some of the core value propositions of containerisation (i.e. how do you scale a GUI app by adding containers?).

• KDE Plasma on K3s?
  reddit.com/r/kde | 2021-09-17

  That said, would there be any benefit of keeping the x11 session in a separate pod vs adding that container to the same pod (such as x11docker*)?

• Pangolin incoming. Ordered yesterday.
  reddit.com/r/System76 | 2021-09-06

  Putting Ubuntu on mine, but plan on trying other distro's in docker using x11docker. Fun times ahead!

• GitHub - mviereck/x11docker: Run GUI applications and desktops in docker. Focus on security.
  reddit.com/r/devopsish | 2021-09-05
• Run GUI applications and desktops in Docker
  news.ycombinator.com | 2021-09-04

  The wiki of x11docker describes some short setups without x11docker, too: https://github.com/mviereck/x11docker/wiki/Short-setups-to-p...

  news.ycombinator.com | 2021-09-04
• How can I make run GUI applications run form inside a docker container?
  reddit.com/r/docker | 2021-03-18

  Checkout x11docker, it can be a little tricky to get things setup but it worked great when I was trying to run a Qt app in a Docker container.

• Running Sway in LXD on X11 Host?
  reddit.com/r/swaywm | 2020-12-31

  Maybe you could somehow use this?

• Ask HW: Qubes OS alternative on LXD containers
  news.ycombinator.com | 2020-12-28

  I've been looking for something like this. So far I've looked into x11docker (https://github.com/mviereck/x11docker) and dx11 (https://gitlab.com/brickpop/dx11-nim#dx11) but dx11 looks unmaintained and the whole solution feels incomplete. Yes, I know it's not LXD, but I was willing to accept docker as an alternative.

• Subuser: Docker as Desktop Programs
  news.ycombinator.com | 2020-12-25

  This seems really interesting. A somewhat related project is x11docker[0] which attempts to make it easier to run gui applications through docker.

  It works pretty well with docker, though I've not used it since I switched to podman as there wasn't any support for it at the time. I've not tried recently.

  It does seem this project is at a dead end based on the recent development activity in recent months.

  [0] https://github.com/mviereck/x11docker/

• Running a Graphical Application from a Docker Container - Simply and Securely
  dev.to | 2020-09-13

  If you are hesitant to allow X server access to a container, an interesting project to explore is x11docker. The gist of that project is to run a second X server with its own authentication cookies. Docker containers get access to the new X server and are segregated from display :0 on the host. This would prevent them from accessing your main display, although I am not sure how it affects the keyboard, mouse, and clipboard. Head over to that project and ask!