Awesome, it works a charm :) On Sun, Jul 03, 2016 at 06:12:07PM -0400, Thompson, David wrote: > On Sun, Jul 3, 2016 at 2:40 PM, Pjotr Prins <pjotr.publi...@thebird.nl> wrote: > > Is there a container howto for X11 applications? I would like to run > > the browser in a Guix container. Fun with a serious note. > > If you share the X11 socket file and set $DISPLAY to the right value, > then you should be able to make that happen: > > guix environment --container --network --share=/tmp/.X11-unix > --ad-hoc icecat > export DISPLAY=":0.0" > icecat > > Do note that the above code gives icecat full access to the X11 server > and the host's network interfaces, so it's not exactly a locked down > environment. > > Perhaps we could use a command line switch to automatically do this > sort of thing. > > - Dave >
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