Running Linux desktop environments in containers

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► Description: The talk will demonstrate how to run simple Linux GUI applications in a container and also how to run full Linux desktop environments in a container and display the GUI on Windows.

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[danielb.]

Best and easiest to understand tutorial about this theme I've ever seen/read! Great job and thank you.

[pfos]

cool ! worlds within worlds within worlds . . .
thanks 4 the demo @Marko =)

[ChuckNorris-lfvo]

Cool. More GPU acceleration demos please!

In the containerized file manager and note taking applications example, is the host system responsible for providing the window decorator and window manager?

[alfonsobaqueiro]

Nice, nice, but for automation testing would be required that each container runs its own Xserver where the browser automation will render when running the test and a login screen is not needed, actually I am running Azure DevOps agent on a linux box, when the agent runs a job, then the agent starts a vncserver and the DISPLAY variable is set to this before running the test suite, so when the test suite starts, the browser starts and renders to this vncserver as display, allowing to run the test suite, also it is possible to see all the action going on connecting to this vncserver using a vnc client.

The problem with this approach is that you have to preset the software needed for the testsuite like nodejs version and node packages, and as different test suites have different requirements as time pass for some reason the chrome browser starts to get corrupted, so my idea is to start an image container with all the software needed fresh and let the container run the test suite. So I need to create a docker image that runs the vncserver or an xserver if is possible and run the tests.

Thanks for your demo, it gets me more near of what I need to acomplish.

[TimLF]

Docker Desktop on Windows is using a VM though, so it's only a container on a Linux host.

[BeyondImaginationzz]

does wayland desktop like sway works ?