Wrapping Desktop Apps with Docker

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35 points·melbo··8 comments

Was reading this the other day:

http://fabiorehm.com/blog/2014/09/11/running-gui-apps-with-d...

Wait. You can mount a socket as a volume? Why didn't I think of that?!

Sometimes I just love Unix.

You can. The biggest caveat with isolating X clients in Docker is that you lose extensions like mit-shm (the shared memory extension), that badly affects performance compared to running apps locally. If you're used to running X apps over the network, then that's not such a big deal, though.

You can work around this problem by running X11 in the parent of the container and performing all your SHM (and similar) operations there. Essentially, coordination of such things needs to happen where the X11 server is running and not inside the container. This is how Gate One's (soon to be released) X11 feature currently works to isolate each user's X11 server.

There exists mechanisms to share memory between containers as well but I personally haven't tried them.

That works for compatibility (for apps that fails to work properly without MIT-SHM support), but does nothing for the performance degradation.

Originally bind mounts were only for directories, but support for files and hence named sockets was added later.

According to my company policy this is online-gambling: http://imgur.com/bV2Umoe

Argh. I promise you it's not. Any idea who provides your filter list?

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