Sharing the Xserver with docker container

Ryan Schmidt ryandesign at macports.org
Mon Jan 25 02:30:45 UTC 2021



On Jan 24, 2021, at 18:01, Tong Sun wrote:

> For any Xserver in host, I normally just do the following in the
> docker container
> 
> export DISPLAY=':0'
> xterm &
> 
> and I'll be all set.
> 
> However, I found that it is not the case for Xserver from macport, as
> I see my DISPLAY in my host is
> 
> DISPLAY=/private/tmp/com.apple.launchd.DiHpGrxgFr/org.macports:0
> 
> How can I share that with my docker container?

I'm not sure. Did you try first starting the X server on your Mac, and then doing what you did before in Docker?


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