I am almost embarrassed to say that I missed a good night's sleep sifting through erroneous out of date misinformation, missing some subtle distinctions, and winnowing out the chafe.
This all started when I wanted to give Krita a try for editing photographs. It is said it is the next best thing in open source when compared to PhotoShop. When installed on my Debian Linux workstation, all I could get out of it was crashes of one form or another. I'm not really surprised as my workstation has been through various combinations of buster, testing, bullseye, sid and experimental. Some package is out of sync somewhere.
So.. since I know how to run LXC containers, I figured I'd give that a try. That was successful, to a point. I used X2Go for remote console. But when my images are Nikon NEF files at 24Megapixels at 14bits each, file size, computation, and visualization are a bit of challenge (the screen updates being the main challenge). A wide erasure brush was slow, even on my speedy machine.
There are sites which vehemently say that there is no direct way to see the GUI from a container on a workstation host. Sigh. Misinformation. Then there are the five year old sites which show how it is done, but have extra commands, missing commands, or missing options. More sigh.
After much trial and error and trying the same things over again, with minor variations on the theme, in the hopes something might fix itself, it was a long night.
For the record, here is my research on a Debian Bullseye system with LXC '1:3.1.0+really3.0.4-3' Continue reading "GUI From an LXC Container on the Host" »