alpine-xfce-vnc

Alpine docker image with Xfce4, x11vnc and noVNC

# pull latest image
docker run --rm \
  -p 5900:5900 -p 6080:6080 \
  --name alpine-xfce-vnc \
  --hostname alpine \
  edgelevel/alpine-xfce-vnc

Multiple versions are available with the following tags

• base, base-x.y.z, x.y.z and latest
• web, web-x.y.z

---

Connect using TigerVNC client

# tigervnc-viewer
vncviewer localhost:5900

Connect using noVNC via browser

# (mac|linux) novnc
[open|xdg-open] http://localhost:6080

Development

# alpine
docker run --rm --name alpine -it alpine:edge

# ubuntu
docker run --rm --name phusion phusion/baseimage:master-amd64
docker exec -it phusion bash

# build images
make docker-build

# run temporary container [base|web]
make docker-run tag=base

# access container
docker exec -it alpine-xfce-vnc bash
supervisorctl status

# cleanup
make docker-clean

# publish a new version on dockerhub
git tag vX.Y.Z
git push origin --tags
# manual: automated dockerhub builds are NOT working anymore
make docker-push docker-password=<PASSWORD>

Known issues

Plugin "Power Manager Plugin" unexpectedly left the panel, do you want to restart it?

The first time you access the container, expect the following error

As explained here, The plugin doesn't work in the container due to a lack of power in docker, so this is not a bug but a limitation of docker

Failed to execute child process "ash" Failed to fdwalk: Operation not permitted

As temporary solution run the container with --security-opt seccomp=unconfined

See

• https://gitlab.xfce.org/apps/xfce4-terminal/-/issues/116
• mviereck/x11docker#346