Added desktop (x11 xfce) image

[Mollomm1]

I created a desktop image that include a xfce desktop with flatpak support.

(composing is disabled by default, it can be enabled in settings)

here the app config

[[apps]]
start_virtual_compositor = true
title = 'Desktop'

    [apps.runner]
    base_create_json = '''{
  "HostConfig": {
    "IpcMode": "host",
    "CapAdd": ["SYS_ADMIN", "SYS_NICE", "SYS_PTRACE", "NET_RAW", "MKNOD", "NET_ADMIN"],
    "SecurityOpt": ["seccomp=unconfined", "apparmor=unconfined"],
    "Ulimits": [{"Name":"nofile", "Hard":10240, "Soft":10240}],
    "Privileged": false,
    "DeviceCgroupRules": ["c 13:* rmw", "c 244:* rmw"]
  }
}
'''
    devices = []
    env = [ 'GOW_REQUIRED_DEVICES=/dev/input/* /dev/dri/* /dev/nvidia*' ]
    image = 'gow-desktop'
    mounts = []
    name = 'Desktop'
    ports = []
    type = 'docker'

[ABeltramo]

Thanks for working on this!

I'll test it more as soon as I have a bit of free time. Just a quick comment below and a question: is flatpack storing everything in $HOME or do we have to add something? I'm on mobile so I might have missed something..

[Mollomm1]

Thanks for working on this!

I'll test it more as soon as I have a bit of free time. Just a quick comment below and a question: is flatpack storing everything in $HOME or do we have to add something? I'm on mobile so I might have missed something..

flathub is installed as user mode so everything is stored under $HOME/.var/app.

[ABeltramo]

I gave it a quick spin locally, and I think the base idea is solid: using flatpak in user mode is really keeping everything nice and tidy under $HOME, I love it!

Just encountered an issue when trying to run the most stupid app I could find: calculator. I'm going to log it here:

dbus-daemon[227]: [session uid=1000 pid=227] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.Flatpak' requested by ':1.18' (uid=1000 pid=367 comm="/usr/bin/flatpak run --branch=stable --arch=x86_64")
dbus-daemon[227]: [session uid=1000 pid=227] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.Flatpak'
dbus-daemon[227]: [session uid=1000 pid=227] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.portal.Documents' requested by ':1.18' (uid=1000 pid=367 comm="/usr/bin/flatpak run --branch=stable --arch=x86_64")
dbus-daemon[227]: [session uid=1000 pid=227] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.impl.portal.PermissionStore' requested by ':1.20' (uid=1000 pid=378 comm="/usr/libexec/xdg-document-portal")
dbus-daemon[227]: [session uid=1000 pid=227] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.impl.portal.PermissionStore'
dbus-daemon[227]: [session uid=1000 pid=227] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.portal.Documents'
Ignoring invalid max threads value 4294967295 > max (100000).
Detected locale "C" with character encoding "ANSI_X3.4-1968", which is not UTF-8.
Qt depends on a UTF-8 locale, and has switched to "C.UTF-8" instead.
If this causes problems, reconfigure your locale. See the locale(1) manual
for more information.
qt.qpa.plugin: Could not find the Qt platform plugin "x11" in ""
qt.qpa.xcb: could not connect to display 
qt.qpa.plugin: From 6.5.0, xcb-cursor0 or libxcb-cursor0 is needed to load the Qt xcb platform plugin.
qt.qpa.plugin: Could not load the Qt platform plugin "xcb" in "" even though it was found.
This application failed to start because no Qt platform plugin could be initialized. Reinstalling the application may fix this problem.

[ABeltramo]

I've fixed the QT issue by adding

flatpak override --user --nosocket=wayland

can you confirm this doesn't break anything on your side too? Were you able to run the calculator (org.kde.kalk) on your side?