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Goddard
Asked: 2016-06-03 21:01:18 +0800 CST

lxc and google chrome cannot open display

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I'm trying to run google chrome from an lxc container, but it fails despite my repeated attempts and various tweaks.

ERROR:browser_main_loop.cc(271)] Gtk: cannot open display: :0.0

Here is my script

#!/bin/sh
CONTAINER=xenial-gui
CMD_LINE="google-chrome --disable-setuid-sandbox --user-data-dir $*"

STARTED=false

if ! lxc-wait -n $CONTAINER -s RUNNING -t 0; then
    lxc-start -n $CONTAINER -d
    lxc-wait -n $CONTAINER -s RUNNING
    STARTED=true
fi

PULSE_SOCKET=/home/ubuntu/.pulse_socket

lxc-attach --clear-env -n $CONTAINER -- sudo -u ubuntu -i \
    env DISPLAY=$DISPLAY PULSE_SERVER=$PULSE_SOCKET $CMD_LINE

if [ "$STARTED" = "true" ]; then
    lxc-stop -n $CONTAINER -t 10
fi
16.04

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    For me, it works, when doing xhost local:* as root or with sudo. This command allows access to the screen for local users. I need to issue this, because I'm running unprivileged containers as different user as I log into my desktop.

    If you are running a non privileged container, you could even further restrict this with xhost local:username. See also man xhost.

    When I started to experiment, I accidently had this enabled and wondered a while after restarting my machine.

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