Re: [lxc-users] Running unprivileged gui container in Arch Linux

2014-08-10 Thread Veer Singh
Tom and Michael thank you for the information regarding X11 access control. I have now enabled the access control again (i.e xhost -) . I am now using Xauthority in container and firefox and chrome seem to run ok. Cheers Veer On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 6:43 PM, Michael H. Warfield wrote: > On

Re: [lxc-users] Running unprivileged gui container in Arch Linux

2014-08-10 Thread Michael H. Warfield
On Sun, 2014-08-10 at 11:18 +0530, Veer Singh wrote: > Just for information , I am now able to run google-chrome also. Now > only thing left is to understand what the heck xhost does :D . Uh, suggest run "man xauth". You use xauth to set up .Xauthority to control access to X11. You probably do

Re: [lxc-users] Running unprivileged gui container in Arch Linux

2014-08-10 Thread Tom Weber
You're describing a X11 Access Control problem - probably off topic for lxc-users. xhost + is the crudest way to open your X Server for basically anyone. With all security related things you better understand what you are doing - thats why I don't give you a couple of commands here ;-) Try googli

Re: [lxc-users] Running unprivileged gui container in Arch Linux

2014-08-09 Thread Veer Singh
Just for information , I am now able to run google-chrome also. Now only thing left is to understand what the heck xhost does :D . Thanks. On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 11:11 AM, Veer Singh wrote: > When I execute "xhost +" in host (arch linux) , I am now able to > successfully to run firefox in co

Re: [lxc-users] Running unprivileged gui container in Arch Linux

2014-08-09 Thread Veer Singh
When I execute "xhost +" in host (arch linux) , I am now able to successfully to run firefox in container and can use its gui window on host . I think error that I was getting might have to do with some permissions on who can use display . I wonder how to set this permission and what exactly to se

[lxc-users] Running unprivileged gui container in Arch Linux

2014-08-09 Thread Veer Singh
lxc-users@lists.linuxcontainers.org Hello , I am running a unprivileged container (as shown here : https://www.stgraber.org/2014/02/09/lxc-1-0-gui-in-containers/ ) in host Arch Linux (amd64) and template is precise-gui (amd64 version) downloaded as given in above link. I am able to run this un