Easy Docker Containers

A GNOME Shell extension (GNOME Panel applet) to be able to generally control your available Docker containers.

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Usage

The following actions are available from the GNOME Panel menu per Docker container:

• Start (Will start the container.)
• Stop (Will stop the container.)
• Pause (Will pause the container.)
• Restart (Will restart the container.)
• Exec (Will login to the running container interactively through your default terminal application.)
• Logs (Will start the running container's Docker logs in your default terminal application.)

Prerequisite¹

1. Properly installed and already running Docker service.
2. Corresponding Linux user in docker Linux group for manage 'Docker' without sudo permission.

Installation

• You can simply install this extension from it's extensions.gnome.org page²,

• or you can pull it from it's GitHub source code repository directly into it's required GNOME Shell directory ³

  1. git clone https://github.com/RedSoftwareSystems/easy_docker_containers.git ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/[email protected]
  2. Restart your shell: [ALT] + [F2] + 'r' + [Enter] (or logout and login again)
  3. Enable the extension manually with 'GNOME Extensions' application (or with 'GNOME Tweaks' application).

Contributors

• kiuma
• Tamas-Toth-ebola
• jacobfogg
• albeto001
• [pierreavizou] (https://github.com/pierreavizou)

Credits

This extension is a fork of gpouilloux's great original Gnome Shell extension for Docker work.

License

GNU - General Public License v3+

Footnotes

1. independently from the extension itself ↩

2. You could update it from here in the future. ↩

3. DO not change this directory name! ↩