How to run electron app inside docker image?
What you're looking for is called x11 forwarding.
Unfortunately, it'll be a little trickier to surface the underlying UI from with the running docker container than if you were using a linux distribution - docker containers are all pretty much linux based. You can't really mount the related unix socket
Normally you just add the following lines to your image
RUN xhost local:rootand run with the socket mounted
docker run -v /tmp/.X11-unix:/tmp/.X11-unix -e DISPLAY=$DISPLAYOn the brightside,
There appears to be a solution which is easy as installing
- VcXsrv
- Adding the
$DISPLAYenv variable with the server ip
Follow the instructions here
https://dev.to/darksmile92/run-gui-app-in-linux-docker-container-on-windows-host-4kde