Daniel Lakeland5d ago

So, #guix friends. This system is amazing, but there are programs that say Debian has which are not available on Guix, and there are other reasons I might want to run another system.

Can I install Incus, and create Debian containers, and have GUI apps inside the container run connecting to my host Guix X/wayland server? Maybe by exposing some /tmp/x_something_or_other sockets?

Has anyone done that and gotten sound and graphics working inside the container by connecting to the host?

Show threadjandi5d ago

@dlakelan Similar to this? https://regrow.earth/blog/2024-10-29_gui-apps-in-incus-containers/

The post is about Devuan on Incus on Alpine; after reading it, your use case seems doable but! I have no idea 😅 never used Guix or even Wayland (Xfce curmudgeon here).

Boosted, though I think you're the Guix expert in my feed, good luck!

🌳 Running Graphical Applications in Incus Containers - Regrow.Earth

Show threadDaniel Lakeland

@jandi

YES. I think I've even read this before, so this probably inspired my idea. I'll look at it again.

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