Re:Running Firefox in the Cloud
by nl on Saturday November 08, 2014 @10:44PM
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See also Docker Desktop[1], which I'd prefer for something like this.
This Dockerfile creates a docker image and once it's executed it creates a container that runs X11 and SSH services. The ssh is used to forward X11 and provide you encrypted data communication between the docker container and your local machine.
Xpra + Xephyr allows to display the applications running inside of the container such as Firefox, LibreOffice, xterm, etc. with recovery connection capabilities. Xpra also uses a custom protocol that is self-tuning and relatively latency-insensitive, and thus is usable over worse links than standard X.
I know X is kind of outdated in some respects these days, but at times I'm amazed at how much foresight went into it to enable things like this to work.
This Dockerfile creates a docker image and once it's executed it creates a container that runs X11 and SSH services. The ssh is used to forward X11 and provide you encrypted data communication between the docker container and your local machine.
Xpra + Xephyr allows to display the applications running inside of the container such as Firefox, LibreOffice, xterm, etc. with recovery connection capabilities. Xpra also uses a custom protocol that is self-tuning and relatively latency-insensitive, and thus is usable over worse links than standard X.
I know X is kind of outdated in some respects these days, but at times I'm amazed at how much foresight went into it to enable things like this to work.
[1] https://github.com/rogaha/docker-desktop
I promptly uninstalled the latest version because of the black screen bug.