Yes, you’re right. I do need network. Your explaination is extremely clear, and 
I will follow your advice.
Thank you all!

Jimmy

On Sunday, 2014-08-31 at 14:12 +0800,Fajar A. Nugraha <l...@fajar.net> wrote:

> Basically the main requirement for a GUI (without sound) is to bind-mount the 
> X socket and setting DISPLAY environment. In fact, if you run full container, 
> you must make sure lightdm service disabled on the container so that the 
> mounted X socket does not get overwritten. So if you keep the line that 
> mounts the X socket, it should work even with lxc-execute.
> 
> However since you'd also need network for firefox, the exec-d command must 
> also inckude scripts to do ifconfig/ifup. With the additional script 
> requirement, it should be easier to simply use a full container as in the 
> article example.
> 
> -- 
> Fajar
> 
> On Sunday, August 31, 2014, Sun Keqin <ke...@nfs.iscas.ac.cn> wrote:
> Yeah, I have read the article, but I still want to ask if there is a 
> “lightweight" approach. Perhaps the answer is not.
> Thank you for help!
> 
> On Sat, 2014-08-30 at 23:01 +0700, Michael H. Warfield <m...@wittsend.com> 
> wrote:
> 
>> On Sat, 2014-08-30 at 21:32 +0700, Fajar A. Nugraha wrote:
>>> On Saturday, August 30, 2014, Sun Keqin <ke...@nfs.iscas.ac.cn> wrote:
>>>        Hi all,
>>>            How to run a GUI program (eg. firefox) with lxc-execute?  
>> 
>>> https://www.stgraber.org/2014/02/09/lxc-1-0-gui-in-containers/
>> 
>> He was asking about lxc-execute but, yeah, doing it with a full
>> container will work.  I've done that with entire desktops.
>> 
>>> -- 
>>> Fajar
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Mike
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