I haven’t followed this thread for a while … the release you are referring to must be ros 0.5, isn’t it?
If I am not mistaken that is released, right? would you mind to post the link to the “page in the docs” here?
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Is there any update on this? I’m seriously interested into moving my desktop to RancherOS which would make it a lot easier for me to target RancherOS on all our server machines. Getting sound, xwindows, etc… working and somewhat supported would be a huge step forward for us.
RancherOS ros service / compose misses two features I need to build my RancherOS Desktop: tmpfs, group_add.
kernel-extra service is required!
sudo ros s enable kernel-extras
sudo ros s list
...
enabled kernel-extras
...
My example service files:
base service (xorg, dbus, volumeicon)
#version: '2'
#services:
xorg:
image: "dengleros/xorg"
container_name: xorg
hostname: xorg
privileged: true
read_only: true
restart: always
environment:
- DISPLAY=:0
tmpfs:
- /var/log
volumes:
- dengleros-tmp:/tmp
# Workaround missing tmpfs
- /var/log
user: root
dbus:
image: "dengleros/dbus"
container_name: dbus
hostname: dbus
read_only: true
restart: always
labels:
- io.rancher.os.after=xorg
volumes:
- dengleros-varlibdbus:/var/lib/dbus
- dengleros-varrundbus:/var/run/dbus
- dengleros-homeuserdbus:/home/user/.dbus
# xorg volume
- dengleros-tmp:/tmp
volumeicon:
image: "dengleros/volumeicon"
container_name: volumeicon
hostname: volumeicon
restart: always
labels:
- io.rancher.os.after=xorg
environment:
- DISPLAY=:0
devices:
- /dev/snd:/dev/snd
volumes:
- dengleros-volumeicon:/home/user/.config/volumeicon
# Volume xorg
- dengleros-tmp:/tmp
Fluxbox DE
xterm with (user-)docker access.
#version: '2'
#services:
fluxbox:
image: "dengleros/fluxbox"
container_name: fluxbox
hostname: fluxbox
restart: unless-stopped
labels:
- io.rancher.os.after=xorg
- io.rancher.os.after=dbus
environment:
- DISPLAY=:0
volumes:
- dengleros-homeuserfluxbox:/home/user/.fluxbox
- /usr/bin/docker:/usr/bin/docker
- /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock
# Volumes xorg and dbus
- dengleros-varlibdbus:/var/lib/dbus
- dengleros-varrundbus:/var/run/dbus
- dengleros-homeuserdbus:/home/user/.dbus
- dengleros-tmp:/tmp
Chromium browser (needs compose group_add…)
docker run -dti --name chromium --hostname chromium --group-add audio --group-add video --volumes-from xorg --volumes-from dbus -e DISPLAY=:0 --shm-size=512m --device /dev/snd --device /dev/dri --user root dengleros/chromium
Should boot to a fluxbox DE with xterm and (user-)docker access. Images are alpine based, but it’s possible to mix up different distributions (I started with a volumeicon @ debian and moved to alpine later).
The images are testing and not optimized, but works fine for me 
Privileges should be reduced and user moved from root to a normal user…
I created a simple login screen (i3lock), but isn’t added with this example above.
@ibuildthecloud
Do you know when compose v2 syntax with group_add and tmpfs will be available at RancherOS (ros service)? group_add and tmpfs could be merged to docker-compose, but maybe not released yet…?
Any one created a wifi container with a gui / applet like wicd / connman-ui / wpa_gui?
wlan0 is inside my container (–net=host), but no interfaces listed in wpa_gui… I don’t know why the wpa_gui can’t find wlan0 interface…
Don’t know why… works fine now and moved to RancherOS service.
wpagui:
image: "dengleros/wpagui"
container_name: wpagui
# hostname: wpagui
restart: always
net: host
cap_add:
- NET_ADMIN
labels:
- io.rancher.os.after=xorg
environment:
- DISPLAY=:0
- QT_X11_NO_MITSHM=1
- QT_GRAPHICSSYSTEM=native
volumes:
- dengleros-tmp:/tmp
DenglerOS Desktop with separated xorg, dbus, volumeicon, wpa_gui, fluxbox and sound / wlan. As desktop fluxbox and manually started chromium browser and additional applications (terminator, keepassx, atom, …).