[lxc-users] Running unprivileged gui container in Arch Linux

[Veer Singh]

Tom and Michael thank you for the information regarding X11 access control.

I have now enabled the access control again (i.e xhost -) .

I am now using Xauthority in container and firefox and chrome seem to run
ok.

Cheers
Veer



On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 6:43 PM, Michael H. Warfield <mhw at wittsend.com>
wrote:

> On Sun, 2014-08-10 at 11:18 +0530, Veer Singh wrote:
> > Just for information , I am now able to run google-chrome also. Now
> > only thing left is to understand what the heck xhost does :D .
>
> Uh, suggest run "man xauth".  You use xauth to set up .Xauthority to
> control access to X11.
>
> You probably don't want to run xhost.
>
> > Thanks.
>
> Regards,
> Mike
> >
> >
> >
> > On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 11:11 AM, Veer Singh <veer.chah at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >         When I execute "xhost +" in host (arch linux) , I am now able
> >         to successfully to run firefox in container and can use its
> >         gui window on host . I think error that I was getting might
> >         have to do with some permissions on who can use display .  I
> >         wonder how to set this permission and what exactly to set when
> >         launching firefox from host.
> >
> >
> >         Thanks
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >         On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 9:35 AM, Veer Singh
> >         <veer.chah at gmail.com> wrote:
> >                 lxc-users at lists.linuxcontainers.org
> >
> >
> >                 Hello ,
> >
> >
> >                 I am running a unprivileged container (as shown here :
> >
> https://www.stgraber.org/2014/02/09/lxc-1-0-gui-in-containers/   ) in
> host Arch Linux (amd64) and template is precise-gui (amd64 version)
> downloaded as given in above link.
> >
> >
> >                 I am able to run this unprivileged container as normal
> >                 user , but I am unable to run any gui from it . When I
> >                 try to run firefox from the container I get following
> >                 error :
> >
> >                 lxc-attach --clear-env -n precise-gui -- sudo -u
> >                 ubuntu -i DISPLAY=$DISPLAY firefox
> >                 No protocol specified
> >                 No protocol specified
> >                 No protocol specified
> >                 No protocol specified
> >                 Error: cannot open display: :0
> >
> >
> >                 I am able to do all cmd line stuff in container but
> >                 not gui.
> >
> >
> >                 Thanks
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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