desktainer-rootless

💻 Remote desktop in a container (rootless version). This image is almost equivalent to dmotte/desktainer but it can be run as a non-root user.

📦 This image is also on Docker Hub as dmotte/desktainer-rootless and runs on several architectures (e.g. amd64, arm64, ...). To see the full list of supported platforms, please refer to the .github/workflows/release.yml file. If you need an architecture which is currently unsupported, feel free to open an issue.

Simple usage

The simplest way to try this image is:

docker run -it --rm -p 6901:6901 dmotte/desktainer-rootless

Note: since some GUI applications may have issues with Docker's default seccomp profile, you may need to use --security-opt seccomp=unconfined

Then head over to http://localhost:6901/ to access the remote desktop.

However, this way the container will run as root. To run it as a non-root user, this image has to be extended. Take a look at the example folder.

More info

For more info see the dmotte/desktainer project, which is very similar to this one.

The environment variables are the same, except USER and PASSWORD which have no effect. This behaviour is intended, since this image should run as a non-root user.