Hacker News: selkiesprojecthttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=selkiesprojectHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Sun, 20 Sep 2026 03:42:27 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by selkiesproject in "Webtop – Alpine,Ubuntu,Fedora,and Arch containers containing full desktop envs"]]>I can only answer for NVIDIA, as that was the platform we developed on, but it should be possible to encapsulate the X11 server within the container without starting an X server on the host machine, and then plug in to the monitor you designate.

I can answer further if you are satisfied with the directions found within https://github.com/selkies-project/docker-nvidia-glx-desktop. It has a lot of effort to NOT require a monitor, but it should also work with one.

]]>Sun, 19 Jan 2025 15:57:00 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42758126selkiesprojecthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42758126https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42758126<![CDATA[New comment by selkiesproject in "Webtop – Alpine,Ubuntu,Fedora,and Arch containers containing full desktop envs"]]>It's possible to use tini, supervisord, dumb-init, and other init 1 services for containers. Bit of a heavy workaround to make it work with desktop environments, but works.

]]>Sun, 19 Jan 2025 15:54:24 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42758107selkiesprojecthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42758107https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42758107<![CDATA[New comment by selkiesproject in "Webtop – Alpine,Ubuntu,Fedora,and Arch containers containing full desktop envs"]]>Selkies should be generally acceptable for gaming, provided that you go through a bit of the WebRTC setup.

]]>Sun, 19 Jan 2025 15:52:35 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42758089selkiesprojecthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42758089https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42758089<![CDATA[New comment by selkiesproject in "Webtop – Alpine,Ubuntu,Fedora,and Arch containers containing full desktop envs"]]>GNOME forces OpenGL 3D compositing with no way to turn off, which is very uncomfortable without a GPU. Every other X11 desktop environment allows to turn them off, which is more tolerable when using llvmpipe, the software CPU Mesa OpenGL implementation.

]]>Sun, 19 Jan 2025 15:49:50 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42758056selkiesprojecthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42758056https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42758056<![CDATA[New comment by selkiesproject in "Webtop – Alpine,Ubuntu,Fedora,and Arch containers containing full desktop envs"]]>Maintainer here! Thank you for the post.

While our focus is for delivering high-performance remote 3D graphical workloads for vanilla Kubernetes and HPC clusters in general, our project should be trivial for anyone to also deploy in their X11 desktop, especially with NVIDIA.

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