DockerWithGui

This repo will provide you a container with the XFCE graphical interface.

It's based on accetto/ubuntu-vnc-xfce, that you can find on him repository at https://github.com/accetto

Inside the container, you can install any graphical app. By the way, you can use the version with Wine to install a Windows application.

It's use XFCE4, a very lightweight graphical interface for linux, and NoVNC, a http server with VNC protocol.

Screenshots

Requirements

A distro Linux;

Docker and Docker Compose

A browser to access NoVNC via http or a VNC client.

Some knowledg about VNC and Wine (if you use the Wine version)

See docker-compose.yml file.

version: '3'
services:

  gui:
    #build: .
    image: hudsonventura/dockerwithgui:latest
    #image: hudsonventura/dockerwithgui:latest_withwine
    restart: always
    ports:
      # port for connect via VNC app
      - "5901:5901"
      #port for conect via noNVC (via http browser like http://localhost:6901)
      - "6901:6901"
    environment:
      # the password must be up to 8 charactrers. This is limited by VNC Protocol
      - "VNC_PW=DWGui"

To operate the container

sudo docker compose up
sudo docker compose down

If you want to compile you image ...

Change docker compose file to get local image:

Uncomment #build: . from docker-compose file.

sudo docker compose --build

Inside container ...

apt update
apt install firefox

To remember

If you want to persist some information, you must use volumes.

When you destroy the container with command sudo docker compose down, all information inside the container also will be destroyed.

To personalize

If you want to create a image with some apps installed, edit the Dockerfile or create a new Dockerfile and put the image hudsonventura/dockerwithgui:latest or hudsonventura/dockerwithgui:latest_withwine in FROM.

Documentation

Full documentation is available at https://github.com/hudsonventura/DockerWithGui.

Credits: https://github.com/accetto