noVNC Display Container

This image is intended to be used for displaying X11 applications from other containers in a browser.

Image Contents

• tigervnc - A high-performance VNC server with support for X11 out of the box
• noNVC - A HTML5 canvas vnc viewer
• Fluxbox - a small window manager
• supervisord - to keep it all running

Usage

Building the container:

make build

Running the container:

make run

Open http://localhost:8080/vnc.html in your browser to access noVNC, or if the image is remote, http://{IP}:8080/vnc.html

Variables

You can specify the following variables:

• VNC_DESKTOP_NAME=<name> ("Xvnc")
• VNC_GEOMETRY=<width>x<height> (1280x800)
• DISPLAY=<display> (:2)
• VNC_PORT=<port> (5902)

Thanks

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This is based on the alpine container by @psharkey: https://github.com/psharkey/docker/tree/master/novnc

Based on wine-x11-novnc-docker, octave-x11-novnc-docker, and tigervnc-docker.