Hi everyone
I’ve got a capable Ubuntu server hosting Docker, using Portainer to manage many stacks and containers. I’m about to add a couple machines to a swarm for a little fault-tolerance.
Before this, Docker was Windows hosted which gave me a useful addition; a handy remote desktop for those times when I wanted to do something remotely using a GUI at home.
https://hub.docker.com/r/linuxserver/rdesktop seems to work OK but I wondered if the community here have any suggested alternatives. Instead of running within Docker, has anyone simply installed a GUI on the Ubuntu host?
Thanks in advance for your input.
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A GUI desktop for what? I’ve never installed a Linux server with a GUI.
But you can certainly do it. I’m sure there’s a metapackage or something that will pull in all the requirements.
if you just want a desktop, kasm is def on the swankier side
remember you can always use x-windows on a local computer to run things directly on a remote box.
I’m worried about if/how Wayland is going to affect X11 forwarding TBH… It’s a really useful linux feature that i’m susprised gets very little use
Check out this: https://github.com/linuxserver/docker-webtop You can stream the GUI directly to your web browser! This is so sick 😅
RDP is fine but a brower stream is just as good if the performance works out, I’ll give it a look, thanks.
More server oriented than a classical desktop: https://cockpit-project.org/
Very useful, reminds me of another browser based Linux manager I forget the name of. Not specifically what I’m trying to achieve but very handy to know, I’ll try it. Thanks.
Was it webmin?
Yes, that’s it!
What are you trying to do? Don’t take this the wrong way, but I can’t imagine anything i’d do on a server where i’d want a GUI.
Even where I could imagine it, there are other options. If you want a graphical file manager, run one in docker or use sshfs to mount it whenever you want. Change config files? Vim. Or nano or whatever if you hate vim. Or spin up a full coding environment whenever you need it and mount in your config files. Just don’t leave it running and don’t expose it. If you just need a linux desktop for a while, and it’s not actually for your server, install a linuxserver.io webtop.
What are you trying to do?
Orb is a project I’ve been meaning to check out. It may meet your needs.
https://gitlab.com/hsleisink/orb
It’s not yet in Docker, however. See the top comments from a couple months back: https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/146og6f/orb_v021_has_been_released/
