deprecated, use carlomt/geant4:latest-gui instead

docker-geant4-gui

Docker container with Geant4 and Qt5 to have Geant4 GUI

you can download this container with:

docker pull carlomt/geant4-gui

Tags:

• [latest]
• [centos]

Linux

I suggest to run it on linux with:

docker run --net=host --env="DISPLAY" --user $(id -u):$(id -g) --volume="$HOME/docker_home/:$HOME" --volume="/etc/group:/etc/group:ro" --volume="/etc/passwd:/etc/passwd:ro" --volume="/etc/shadow:/etc/shadow:ro" --volume="$HOME/.Xauthority:$HOME/.Xauthority:rw" --volume="$HOME/SOME_PATH/geant4-data:/opt/geant4/data" -it --rm carlomt/geant4-gui

after having created a directory for the home user in the container:

mkdir $HOME/docker_home/

and a directory for the Geant4 datasets:

mkdir $HOME/SOME_PATH/geant4-data

it automatically check if the dataset is correctly installed, if not I suggest you to do so with:

geant4-config --install-datasets

Mac Os

instructions done getting inspiration from: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37826094/xt-error-cant-open-display-if-using-default-display

Make sure to install XQuartz (Updated with 2021 change)

install brew https://brew.sh/

install socat:

brew install socat

reboot your mac.

In MacOs the user information are not saved in a text file, I suggest to create such a file to pass it to the container:

echo "$USER:x:$(id -u):$(id -g):$(id -F),,,:/home/$USER:/bin/bash" > ~/docker_home/.config/passwd

You will need 2 terminals open: one for the socat with the display and the other for running Docker

verify if there's anything running on port 6000:

lsof -i TCP:6000

If there is anything, just kill the process:

kill -9 PROCESS_PID

Open a socket on that port and keep the terminal open

socat TCP-LISTEN:6000,reuseaddr,fork UNIX-CLIENT:\"$DISPLAY\"

on the second terminal run the container:

docker run --net=host --env="DISPLAY" -e DISPLAY=docker.for.mac.host.internal:0 --user $(id -u):$(id -g) --volume="$HOME/docker_home/.config/passwd:/etc/passwd:ro" --volume="$HOME/docker_home/:/home/$USER" --volume="$HOME/.Xauthority:$HOME/.Xauthority:rw" --volume="$HOME/SOME_PATH/geant4-data:/opt/geant4/data" -it --rm carlomt/geant4-gui

Geant4 examples

The Geant4 examples are in the

/opt/geant4/examples/

folder inside the container. You do not have writing permission in that folder (and in its subfolder), I suggest you to copy the example you wish to modify in your home folder.

Geant4 datasets

To keep the size of the Docker images limited, the Geant4 datasets are not installed. They expect to find the datasets in /opt/geant4/data I suggest you to map a folder in the host to use always the same dataset with the option:

--volume="$HOME/SOME_PATH/geant4-data:/opt/geant4/data

The image will check the datasets at login, if some are missing install them with:

geant4-config --install-datasets