Podman Debian container image with IceWM VNC environment

This repository contains a Podman Debian container image with an IceWM VNC environment, with the following components installed:

• Desktop environment: IceWM
• VNC server (default VNC port: 5901)
• noVNC - HTML5 VNC client (default http port: 6901)
• Browsers:
  • Mozilla Firefox
  • Chromium

Changes from upstream

• Removed all Rocky Linux and XFCE images to focus on Debian and IceWM
• Updated base image from Debian Bookworm (12) to Debian Trixie (13)
• Switched to installing all software from the Debian repositories, streamlining the build process, keeping up to date and fixing architecture errors
• Fixed issues with missing icons in the IceWM menus and changed the default IceWM theme to motif from win95
• Replaced xterm with alacritty for a more modern terminal experience
• Added a compose.yaml file for easier container management
• Added an optional volume mount to persist data in the container's home directory
• Removed extraneous code and dependencies and replaced vim with nano

Usage

1. Install podman and podman-compose, then git clone this repository
2. Run podman-compose up to build and start the container
3. Access the noVNC client via http://localhost:6901/vnc.html in your web browser

Configuration

Open and edit the compose.yaml file and uncomment the option(s) you wish to change, then use podman-compose down and podman-compose up to apply the changes.

Contributors

This repository was forked from ConSol/docker-headless-vnc-container; many thanks go to its contributors.