ivonet/x11novnc repository overview

⁠Alpine X11 Display Container

One uses this image as a companion image for X11 programs It does not stand on its own.

⁠Contents

• Xvfb⁠ - X11 in a virtual framebuffer
• x11vnc⁠ - A VNC server that scrapes the above X11 server
• noNVC⁠ - A HTML5 canvas vnc viewer
• Fluxbox⁠ - a small window manager
• socat⁠ - for use with other containers
• supervisord⁠ - to keep it all running

⁠Usage

Easiest is to use it in a docker compose file like the one below

version: '3'

services:
  x11:
    image: ivonet/x11novnc:latest
    environment:
      - DISPLAY_WIDTH=1024
      - DISPLAY_HEIGHT=768
    ports:
      - 8080:8080
  ide:
    image: ivonet/intellij:latest
    environment:
      - DISPLAY=x11:0.0
    volumes:
      - ./projects:/projects
    depends_on:
      - novnc

• Now access through http://localhost:8080⁠