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firippusan

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Registered: 2012-10-13

Posts: 17

Jailing skype in a container (where it belongs)

I'm trying to run skype within an Arch systemd container (and also and ubuntu debootstrap container, i.e.
EXAMPLE 2
           # debootstrap --arch=amd64 unstable ~/debian-tree/
           # systemd-nspawn -D ~/debian-tree/

       This installs a minimal Debian unstable distribution into the directory ~/debian-tree/ and then spawns a shell in a namespace container in it.

EXAMPLE 3
           # pacstrap -c -d ~/arch-tree/ base
           # systemd-nspawn -bD ~/arch-tree/

see https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ar … _container and
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ch … emd-nspawn

When I run skype inside the container the skype window opens but it is empty, white, nothing can be seen.

It works when I tried from my ubuntu partition, so the container is probably ok, it's something that is missing on the
arch host. But what? Any ideas?

vinegret

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From: Belarus

Registered: 2014-12-20

Posts: 1

Re: Jailing skype in a container (where it belongs)

Today i have decided exactly the same problem. For Qt4 applications forwarding (with enabled xhost) :
$ QT_X11_NO_MITSHM=1 skype