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maggie

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Registered: 2011-02-12

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Run firefox from inside my lxc so it shows in my real screen [solved]

I have a lxc that is up and running. I can't figure out how to get firefox to run on my physical session. When I try it from the the linux container, I get an error. This is from my physical terminal

sudo lxc-attach --clear-env -n playtime -- sudo -u maggie -i env DISPLAY=$DISPLAY firefox
(firefox:75) : Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0.0

I have the container config here

lxc.rootfs = /var/lib/lxc/mycontainer/rootfs
lxc.utsname = mycontainer
lxc.arch = x86_64
lxc.include = /usr/share/lxc/config/archlinux.common.conf

# network
lxc.network.type = veth
lxc.network.link = br0
lxc.network.flags =up
lxc.network.ipv4 = 192.168.0.3/24
lxc.network.ipv4.gateway=192.168.0.1
lxc.network.name = eth0

lxc.mount.entry = /dev/dri dev/dri none bind,optional,create=dir
lxc.mount.entry = /dev/snd dev/snd none bind,optional,create=dir
lxc.mount.entry = /tmp/.X11-unix tmp/.X11-unix none bind,optional,create=dir
lxc.mount.entry = /dev/video0 dev/video0 none bind,optional,create=file

Last edited by maggie (2015-04-19 21:31:13)

graysky

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Re: Run firefox from inside my lxc so it shows in my real screen [solved]

I'm not expert but you might need to use an unprivileged container.  Maybe someone with more knowledge can help you do it without that.

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graysky

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Re: Run firefox from inside my lxc so it shows in my real screen [solved]

I think this will fix your problem: https://github.com/lxc/lxc/issues/434

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maggie

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Registered: 2011-02-12

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Re: Run firefox from inside my lxc so it shows in my real screen [solved]

Thank you very much, graysky! It works fine now

ineb

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Registered: 2011-07-25

Posts: 7

Re: Run firefox from inside my lxc so it shows in my real screen [solved]

hello,

can you please post your working lxc conf? iam still having issues with my x11 inside lxc setup.