accetto/ubuntu-vnc-xfce-firefox-g3 repository overview

⁠Headless Ubuntu/Xfce container with VNC/noVNC and Firefox browser

⁠accetto/ubuntu-vnc-xfce-firefox-g3

User Guide⁠ - GitHub⁠ - Dockerfile⁠ - Readme⁠ - Changelog⁠

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This Docker Hub repository contains Docker images for headless working.

The images are based on Ubuntu 24.04, 22.04 and 20.04 LTS⁠ and include Xfce⁠ desktop, TigerVNC⁠ server and noVNC⁠ client. The popular web browser Firefox⁠ is also included.

This User guide⁠ describes the images and how to use them.

The related GitHub project⁠ contains image generators that image users generally don’t need, unless they want to build the images themselves.

⁠Tags

The following image tags are regularly built and published on Docker Hub:

• latest (also as 24.04) based on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

  

• 22.04 based on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS

  

• 20.04 based on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

  

Hint: Clicking the version sticker badge reveals more information about the particular build.

⁠Features

The main features and components of the images in the default configuration are:

• lightweight Xfce⁠ desktop environment (Ubuntu distribution)
• sudo⁠ support
• current version of JSON processor jq⁠
• current version of high-performance TigerVNC⁠ server and client
• current version of noVNC⁠ HTML5 clients (full and lite) (TCP port 6901)
• popular text editor nano⁠ (Ubuntu distribution)
• lite but advanced graphical editor mousepad⁠ (Ubuntu distribution)
• current version of tini⁠ as the entry-point initial process (PID 1)
• support for overriding environment variables, VNC parameters, user and group (see User guide⁠)
• support of version sticker (see User guide⁠)
• Firefox⁠ web browser
  • images based on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS - current version from the Ubuntu 20.04 LTS distribution
  • images based on Ubuntu 24.04 and 22.04 LTS - current non-snap version from the Mozilla Team PPA
• additional Firefox plus feature (see User guide⁠)

The following TCP ports are exposed by default:

• 5901 for access over VNC (using VNC viewer)
• 6901 for access over noVNC⁠ (using web browser)

⁠Remarks

There is also a similar sibling image accetto/debian-vnc-xfce-firefox-g3⁠ based on Debian⁠.

This is the third generation (G3) of my headless images. The second generation (G2) contains the GitHub repository accetto/xubuntu-vnc-novnc⁠. The first generation (G1) contains the GitHub repository accetto/ubuntu-vnc-xfce⁠.

The Firefox⁠ installed in the images based on Ubuntu 24.04 and 22.04 LTS is the current non-snap version from the Mozilla Team PPA. It's because the Ubuntu 24.04 and 22.04 LTS distribution contains only the snap version and the snap is currently not supported in Docker containers.

⁠Getting help

If you've found a problem or you just have a question, please check the User guide⁠, Issues⁠ and Wiki⁠ first. Please do not overlook the closed issues.

If you do not find a solution, you can file a new issue. The better you describe the problem, the bigger the chance it'll be solved soon.

If you have a question or an idea and you don't want to open an issue, you can also use the Discussions⁠.

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