[lxc-users] Run GUI program using lxc-execute

[Fajar A. Nugraha]

Basically the main requirement for a GUI (without sound) is to bind-mount
the X socket and setting DISPLAY environment. In fact, if you run full
container, you must make sure lightdm service disabled on the container so
that the mounted X socket does not get overwritten. So if you keep the line
that mounts the X socket, it should work even with lxc-execute.

However since you'd also need network for firefox, the exec-d command must
also inckude scripts to do ifconfig/ifup. With the additional script
requirement, it should be easier to simply use a full container as in the
article example.

-- 
Fajar

On Sunday, August 31, 2014, Sun Keqin <keqin at nfs.iscas.ac.cn> wrote:

> Yeah, I have read the article, but I still want to ask if there is a “lightweight"
> approach. Perhaps the answer is not.
> Thank you for help!
>
> On Sat, 2014-08-30 at 23:01 +0700, Michael H. Warfield <mhw at WittsEnd.com
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','mhw at WittsEnd.com');>> wrote：
>
> On Sat, 2014-08-30 at 21:32 +0700, Fajar A. Nugraha wrote:
>
> On Saturday, August 30, 2014, Sun Keqin <keqin at nfs.iscas.ac.cn
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','keqin at nfs.iscas.ac.cn');>> wrote:
>        Hi all,
>            How to run a GUI program (eg. firefox) with lxc-execute?
>
>
> https://www.stgraber.org/2014/02/09/lxc-1-0-gui-in-containers/
>
>
> He was asking about lxc-execute but, yeah, doing it with a full
> container will work.  I've done that with entire desktops.
>
> --
> Fajar
>
>
> Regards,
> Mike
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