accetto/ubuntu-vnc-xfce-g3 repository overview

⁠Headless Ubuntu/Xfce container with VNC/noVNC

⁠accetto/ubuntu-vnc-xfce-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.

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 (Debian 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)

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 repository accetto/debian-vnc-xfce-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.

⁠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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