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x11docker-gnome

A collection of Dockerfiles for building images with different versions of GNOME. These images can then be run with x11docker. Fedora images are used as a base, since versions of Fedora conveniently correspond to each stable version of GNOME.

Running multiple containers of different GNOME versions

Makefile allows building, pushing, pulling, and running of each image. (Running in this case is just invoking /bin/bash---for starting with x11docker, see run-gnome-shell.sh.)

The recommended workflow is as follows:

# Pull images from Docker Hub:
#   docker.io/jkitching/gnome-shell-XYZ
make pull gnome-shell-39 gnome-shell-40  # pull individual images
make pull all                            # pull all images

# Copy the run shell script template
cp run-gnome-shell.sh.template run-gnome-shell.sh
chmod +x run-gnome-shell.sh

# Make modifications as necessary
vim run-gnome-shell.sh

# Start GNOME container with x11docker
./run-gnome-shell.sh gnome-shell-39

For more details on how it all works, check out this blog post: GNOME development with x11docker containers.

Included packages

  • gnome-terminal
  • gnome-extensions-app (separate package from GNOME 3.36 onward)
  • nautilus for file browsing
  • xdg-user-dirs creates directories required for taking screenshots
  • mesa-dri-drivers and mesa-libGL for GPU acceleration
  • Xephyr for displaying GDM login screen
  • xdotool and wmctrl for programmatically controlling X11
  • iproute for ss tool used to query TCP and other sockets (e.g. find open ports)
  • gnome-tour is removed, because we don't want a tour