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I'm trying to setup a docker environment to experiment with another distro (Ubuntu in this case). Is it possible to do a full-blown desktop environment in Docker - as in the full launcher, etc, rather than just individual apps showing up the desktop as when they are needed?
Is it also possible to tie a docker container to a local X terminal (e.g. accessible using CTRL+ALT+Fx)?
Is it also possible to tie a docker container to a local X terminal (e.g. accessible using CTRL+ALT+Fx)?
would be nice, to explain what do you really need:
you can start X outside of the docker (on the host) and start an X terminal from "inside" the docker in it.
And also you may try to start an X server just to serve apps inside docker, but that is not an easy task.
see for example here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1...cker-container
These are various questions popping up as I'm learning the fundamentals. Sure you can start a container with the -ti switch to get a terminal within there. And yes you can redirect a container to use your current display using something like -e DISPLAY=$DISPLAY, but can I start up a container silently and point it to, say VT8 so CTRL+ALT+Fx will give me that?
Would really have liked to have been able to use docker as an alternative to a full blown VM, but it's not so much an issue.
CTRL+ALT+Fx means - for me - something like a remote XDMCP desktop. At this moment I think it is not impossible, but probably not really easy. You need to install the full X environment into docker and run it. And start X on your host. http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ug/using-remote-session.html (just a starting point, check the links too).
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