[GRASS-user] About grass-gis:main-ubuntu_wxgui docker

[Markus Neteler]

Hi Venka,

On Sat, Aug 31, 2024 at 1:28 AM Venka via grass-user
<grass-user at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> I build my docker image using main-ubuntu_wxgui [1] as the base.
> I need to have the GRASS GUI working in my docker container.
>
> After successfully building my docker image and running the
> docker image, GRASS starts only in text mode. I was expecting
> that it would start in GUI mode.
>
> When I run the command "grass --gui" in the docker bash shell,
> I get a message
>
> "Launching <wxpython> GUI in the background, please wait.."
> and the GRASS GUI never starts up.
>
> I can only use GRASS in CLI mode inside the docker.
>
> Any suggestion to get the GRASS GIS running in docker?

Two suggestions:
- I just submitted a bugfix (say, two) in this pull request (PR):
   https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/pull/4268
- to run it, be sure to redirect the display. E.g. (also works nicely
with podman):

docker run -it --rm --volume="$(pwd)/:/data"
--volume="/tmp/.X11-unix:/tmp/.X11-unix:rw" \
            --env DISPLAY=$DISPLAY
--device="/dev/dri/card0:/dev/dri/card0" some_hash_or_image_name \
            grass --gui

Once the PR above is accepted and merged, the updated docker image
should be generated and available to you.

Best,
Markus


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