epflsti/octave-x11-novnc-docker repository overview

⁠octave-x11-novnc-docker

This docker runs GNU Octave - an open source Matlab - which provides capabilities for the numerical solution of linear and nonlinear problems, and for performing other numerical experiments. The Octave GUI have to be accessed through a browser in a noVNC windows.

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⁠This container runs

• Xvfb⁠ - X11 in a virtual framebuffer
• x11vnc⁠ - A VNC server that scrapes the above X11 server
• noNVC⁠ - A HTML5 canvas vnc viewer
• Fluxbox⁠ - a small window manager
• octave⁠ - to demo that it works

⁠How To

⁠With Docker Hub

• docker pull epflsti/octave-x11-novnc-docker
• docker run -p 8083:8083 -ti epflsti/octave-x11-novnc-docker:latest
• firefox http://localhost:8083
• octave is launched, just run some script e.g. my_sombrero.m

Adding the parameter -e SCREEN_RESOLUTION=<width>x<height> the screen size displayed is adjusted to the one in the environment variable. By default it is 1024x768.

If your source files are in your host then just add the -v parameter for example

• docker run -p 8083:8083 -ti -v $(pwd):/source epflsti/octave-x11-novnc-docker:latest

⁠Manual Build

• docker build -t epflsti/octave-x11-novnc-docker:latest .
• docker run -p 8083:8083 -ti epflsti/octave-x11-novnc-docker:latest
• firefox http://localhost:8083
• octave is launched, just run some script e.g. my_sombrero.m

⁠Gh-pages

Please visit the project's website on http://epfl-sti.github.io/octave-x11-novnc-docker/⁠

⁠On DockerHub / GitHub

• epflsti/octave-x11-novnc-docker on DockerHub⁠
• epfl-sti/octave-x11-novnc-docker on GitHub⁠

⁠Thanks

Based on wine-x11-novnc-docker⁠, thanks @solarkennedy !