arch-plasma

Create a baseline Archlinux enviroment using KDE Plasma with NoVNC and Webockify pre-configured for other to to use for their docker containers.

How it works:

1) XVFB - X11 in a virtual framebuffer.
2) X11vnc - A VNC server that scrapes the above X11 server.
3) noVNC & websockify - A HTML5 canvas vnc viewer.
4) Dbus + KDE Plamsa - starts the desktop enviroment.

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Planned todo:

Loose guidelines to check i've got everything I need.

v0.0.0

• archlinux version at build
  • arg $arch_version
  • Default latest

v0.1.0

• pacman
  • ca-certificates
  • general tools (example... curl, wget, less, unzip, rsync, bash, bash-completion)
  • python
  • python-numpy (used for websockify for latancy reduction.)
  • ARG $pacman_packages

V0.2.0

• xvfb

v0.3.0

• NOVNC
  • Downladed
  • Installed
  • Configuration
  • Setup with default details but configure (ENV & ARG) for password.
  • ARG novnc_passwd.
• Websockify
  • Downloaded
  • Installed
  • Configuration
• SSL certificate (allow personal re-defined file?)
  • ENV Cert
  • ENV Key

v0.4.0

• KDE
  • Enable
  • Configuration
  • Remove un-required packages.

v0.5.0

• Container size reduction.
  • xorg
  • novnc
  • websockify
  • KDE-Plasma. Struggling to reduce size of package.

v0.6.0

• Entrypoint additions
  • Enable / Disable desktop config
  • enable to use GIT themes?

v1.2.0

• noVNC add audio passthrough.

Removed as user can change language from US when they build.

• local Config
  • LANG = US default
  • ARG $LANG (to change default language. Need to account for language packs.)

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Docker Run Example

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Docker-Compose

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Enviroment aguments

Password:

root_passwd='root'
novnc_passwd='P@ssw0rd'

expose port:

novnc_port=5900

Display Settings:

DISPLAY=:0.0
DISPLAY_WIDTH=1024
DISPLAY_HEIGHT=768

Websockify SSL:

SSL_CERT="/opt/ssl/cert.pem"
SSL_KEY="/opt/ssl/key.pem"

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Build Arguments

Build version of arch linux from the docker repositroy.

arch_version='base-20220424.0.54084'

Install additional pacman packages to what is already preset.

pacman_packages='less curl steam'

Get the version of NoVNC by the release version. Excludes any pre-releases.

novnc_version='1.2'

Get the version of websockify by the release version. Excludes any pre-releases.

websockify_version='0.8'