Re: Feedback on how to run a Desktop Gambas Application into a Docker container

[Laurent Carlier <lordheavym@xxxxxxxxx>]

Le jeudi 21 août 2025, 01:57:56 heure d’été d’Europe centrale Linus a écrit :
> Hello all,
> 
> Like previously the feedback about how to run a Gambas Web Application into
> a Docker container, today is the turn of how to run a Gambas Desktop
> Application.
> 
> The main differences are:
> - the command line executed into the Docker Container for a Gambas Desktop
> Application is the *.gambas executable itself rather than the Web Server
> process in the case of a Gambas Web Application. - The options used in the
> command line to start the Docker Container
> 
> You will find here a little video showing how to start a Gambas Desktop
> Application into a Docker Container + the Gambas demo Project + the Docker
> project to build the Docker Image of the Gambas Desktop Application
> 
> Docker_Gambas_Desktop_Application
> <https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1D6Q8bsilYRq4RKcybVl6pEyUOTD-dOt0?u
> sp=sharing>
> 
> 
> Here is an example of the Docker command line to start a Graphic Application
> 
> xhost +local:docker ; \
> docker run -it --name calculateurdegrade \
> --privileged \
> --net=host \
> --env="NVIDIA_DRIVER_CAPABILITIES=all" \
> --env="DISPLAY=$DISPLAY" \
> --env="QT_X11_NO_MITSHM=1" \
> --volume="/tmp/.X11-unix:/tmp/.X11" \
> calculateurdegrade:202508
> 
> 
> The only bad point on this kind of solution to embedded a Gambas Desktop
> Application, is the size of the Docker Image produced (in this example
> 746MB) but the size does not affect at all the time to start the
> application, that’s the magie of Docker...
> 
> In the end the Docker Image can run the Application on any Linux
> distribution because all the necessary for the Graphic Application is
> inside the Docker Container.
> 
> 
> I hope this project will interest/help someone
> 
> 
> Olivier Cruilles

You should add all of this on the wiki !

Good job ;)

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