carlonluca / docker-vnc-desktop

Scripts to create an image with a clean desktop and VNC access.

Docker VNC desktop

Docker VNC desktop contains the scripts needed to build images including clean DE's with VNC support. Images are supposed to be as light as possible and simple to run. I use these images mostly for development purposes or quick tasks.

LXQT on docker on Raspberry Pi (arm64)

docker run --rm -e USER=luca -e RESOLUTION=1920x1080 -p 5900:5900 carlonluca/vnc-desktop:jammy-lxqt

XFCE (amd64)

docker run --rm -e USER=luca -e RESOLUTION=1920x1080 -p 5900:5900 carlonluca/vnc-desktop:jammy-xfce

Run

To simply run the image and expose the port to localhost use:

docker run --rm -p 5900:5900 carlonluca/vnc-desktop:bullseye-xfce

This will run the DE as the root user. To run it as a regular user set the USER variable:

docker run --rm -e USER=luca -p 5900:5900 carlonluca/vnc-desktop:bullseye-xfce

The resolution is set to a default, which is frequently too small. Setting the RESOLUTION env variable is sufficient to change it:

docker run --rm -e USER=luca -e RESOLUTION=1920x1080 -p 5900:5900 carlonluca/vnc-desktop:bullseye-xfce

NOTE: default credentials for all images are ubuntu:ubuntu.

docker-vnc-desktop's Issues

Path to init not correct

Hi Luca,
first of all, a big thank you for the project. It's really useful for me.

Issue

I built a docker image with the Dockerfile you provided. But as soon as I ran the container, an error occurred:
The startup.sh couldn't execute it's last line (39) of code

exec /usr/bin/tini -- supervisord -n -c /etc/supervisor/supervisord.conf

because in the Dockerfile we copied tini to /bin/tini:

ADD https://github.com/krallin/tini/releases/download/${TINI_VERSION}/tini /bin/tini

Solution

Changing the last line (39) to

exec /bin/tini -- supervisord -n -c /etc/supervisor/supervisord.conf

and rebuilding the image did the trick for me.

You can add those changes to the project if you'd like.

Can't use without user password.

Good afternoon,
I've managed to install your xfce docker and I would like to thank you because yours in the only one that worked for me.
However, I managed to change the username, but, I can't figure out the password.

Can you please help?

Thank you and have a nice day.

EDIT: I found it in your text file, thx again for all your hard work