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It's no problem to run an X server in the container and use VNC/X client/openssh to access it from your machine. See for example this blog post: http://blog.doc
by MrUnderhill 12y ago
It's no problem to run an X server in the container and use VNC/X client/openssh to access it from your machine. See for example this blog post: http://blog.docker.io/2013/07/docker-desktop-your-desktop-over-ssh-running-inside-of-a-docker-container/ http://blog.docker.io/2013/07/docker-desktop-your-desktop-ov...
- arethuza 12y agoDon't you mean run the X server locally and an X client in the container?
- vidarh 12y agoYou can do it either way depending on what you're trying to achieve. I have a dev container set up that runs Xvnc and/or Xpra in a container so I can connect to it from anywhere.
- arethuza 12y agoPossibly going a bit off-topic here - but isn't Xvnc arguably a "headless" X server, in that it appears to be a X server and a VNC server - but as X client/server terminology is round they other way from VNC (and pretty much everything else) it isn't really a "graphical" application in the sense of jmnicolas's original question...