Base Image for Desktop Applications on lightweight IceWM Window Manager (x86 + arm)

This container is an alterantive to the desktopcontainers debian-base and alpine-base containers.

It has a different view on things. First of all, it just exposes NoVNC via HTTP on port 8080. It's not meant to be used as a baseimage, but rather as a baseline. So fork this repo, add/install the software and put it's execution script into the /container/scripts/app file.

Since it's not longer using that many services (e.g.: ssh, vnc, https etc.) it has a much smaller footprint and should be easy to maintain and upgrade without the dependency hell of using base images etc.

Only 4 optional environment variables for all configuartion options.

• HTTP VNC (port: 8080, no password)

Changelogs

• 2024-01-04
  • complete rewrite of base-debian
  • removed vnc, https, ssh and x11 protocols
  • keep it simple, just a desktop env accessible from a browser

Environment variables and defaults

General

• ENABLE_SUDO

  • set this to enable to allow the user to use sudo
  • default: not set

• ENABLE_KIOSK

  • set this to enable to enable Kiosk mode
    • only run app and make sure it will always restart
    • it is advised to not combine with ENABLE_SUDO - but it's still possible to use with sudo enabled.
  • default: not set
  • perfect for (fullscreen) software like rdesktop, vncviewer, Browser etc.

VNC Settings

• VNC_SCREEN_DEPTH

  • set the screen depth for the xfvb x-server
  • default: 24
  • other possible values:
    • 8
    • 16
    • 24

• VNC_SCREEN_RESOLUTION

  • set this to a specific resolution like '1280x1024' if you want a specific default one
  • default: 1280x1024
  • depth is configured with VNC_SCREEN_DEPTH env
  • other possible values:
    • 640x480
    • 800x600
    • 1024x768
    • 1280x1024
    • 1280x720
    • 1280x800
    • 1280x960
    • 1360x768
    • 1400x1050
    • 1600x1200
    • 1680x1050
    • 1900x1200
    • 1920x1080
    • 1920x1200

Your custom Application

add all your code used for starting your application/s to /container/scripts/app.