linuxserver/webtop
Webtop - Alpine, Ubuntu, Fedora, and Arch based containers containing full desktop environments in officially supported flavors accessible via any modern web browser.
Simply pulling
lscr.io/linuxserver/webtop:latest should retrieve the correct image for your arch, but you can also pull specific arch images via tags.The architectures supported by this image are:
Architecture | Available | Tag |
|---|---|---|
x86-64 | ✅ | amd64-<version tag> |
arm64 | ✅ | arm64v8-<version tag> |
armhf | ✅ | arm32v7-<version tag> |
This image provides various versions that are available via tags. Please read the descriptions carefully and exercise caution when using unstable or development tags.
Tag | Available | Description |
|---|---|---|
latest | ✅ | XFCE Alpine |
ubuntu-xfce | ✅ | XFCE Ubuntu |
fedora-xfce | ✅ | XFCE Fedora |
arch-xfce | ✅ | XFCE Arch |
alpine-kde | ✅ | KDE Alpine |
ubuntu-kde | ✅ | KDE Ubuntu |
fedora-kde | ✅ | KDE Fedora |
arch-kde | ✅ | KDE Arch |
alpine-mate | ✅ | MATE Alpine |
ubuntu-mate | ✅ | MATE Ubuntu |
fedora-mate | ✅ | MATE Fedora |
arch-mate | ✅ | MATE Arch |
alpine-i3 | ✅ | i3 Alpine |
ubuntu-i3 | ✅ | i3 Ubuntu |
fedora-i3 | ✅ | i3 Fedora |
arch-i3 | ✅ | i3 Arch |
alpine-openbox | ✅ | Openbox Alpine |
ubuntu-openbox | ✅ | Openbox Ubuntu |
fedora-openbox | ✅ | Openbox Fedora |
arch-openbox | ✅ | Openbox Arch |
alpine-icewm | ✅ | IceWM Alpine |
ubuntu-icewm | ✅ | IceWM Ubuntu |
fedora-icewm | ✅ | IceWM Fedora |
arch-icewm | ✅ | IceWM Arch |
The Webtop can be accessed at:
- http://yourhost:3000/
By default the user/pass is abc/abc, if you change your password or want to login manually to the GUI session for any reason use the following link:
- http://yourhost:3000/?login=true
You can also force login on the '/' path without this parameter by passing the environment variable
-e AUTO_LOGIN=false.You can access advanced features of the Guacamole remote desktop using ctrl+alt+shift enabling you to use remote copy/paste, an onscreen keyboard, or a baked in file manager. This can also be accessed by clicking the small circle on the left side of the screen.
Modern GUI desktop apps (including some flavors terminals) have issues with the latest Docker and syscall compatibility, you can use Docker with the
--security-opt seccomp=unconfined setting to allow these syscalls or try podman as they have updated their codebase to support themUnlike our other containers these Desktops are not designed to be upgraded by Docker, you will keep your home directoy but anything you installed system level will be lost if you upgrade an existing container. To keep packages up to date instead use Ubuntu's own apt, Alpine's apk, Fedora's dnf, or Arch's pacman program
Keyboard Layouts
This should match the layout on the computer you are accessing the container from.
The keyboard layouts available for use are:
- da-dk-qwerty- Danish keyboard
- de-ch-qwertz- Swiss German keyboard (qwertz)
- de-de-qwertz- German keyboard (qwertz) - OSK available
- en-gb-qwerty- English (UK) keyboard
- en-us-qwerty- English (US) keyboard - OSK available DEFAULT
- es-es-qwerty- Spanish keyboard - OSK available
- fr-ch-qwertz- Swiss French keyboard (qwertz)
- fr-fr-azerty- French keyboard (azerty) - OSK available
- it-it-qwerty- Italian keyboard - OSK available
- ja-jp-qwerty- Japanese keyboard
- pt-br-qwerty- Portuguese Brazilian keyboard
- sv-se-qwerty- Swedish keyboard
- tr-tr-qwerty- Turkish-Q keyboard
If you ever lose your password you can always reset it by execing into the container as root:
docker exec -it webtop passwd abc
By default we perform all logic for the abc user and we reccomend using that user only in the container, but new users can be added as long as there is a
startwm.sh executable script in their home directory. All of these containers are configured with passwordless sudo, we make no efforts to secure or harden these containers and we do not reccomend ever publishing their ports to the public Internet.Many desktop application will need access to a GPU to function properly and even some Desktop Environments have compisitor effects that will not function without a GPU. This is not a hard requirement and all base images will function without a video device mounted into the container.
To leverage hardware acceleration you will need to mount /dev/dri video device inside of the conainer.
--device=/dev/dri:/dev/dri
We will automatically ensure the abc user inside of the container has the proper permissions to access this device.
Hardware acceleration users for Nvidia will need to install the container runtime provided by Nvidia on their host, instructions can be found here: https://github.com/NVIDIA/nvidia-docker
We automatically add the necessary environment variable that will utilise all the features available on a GPU on the host. Once nvidia-docker is installed on your host you will need to re/create the docker container with the nvidia container runtime
--runtime=nvidia and add an environment variable -e NVIDIA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=all (can also be set to a specific gpu's UUID, this can be discovered by running nvidia-smi --query-gpu=gpu_name,gpu_uuid --format=csv ). NVIDIA automatically mounts the GPU and drivers from your host into the container.Best effort is made to install tools to allow mounting in /dev/dri on Arm devices. In most cases if /dev/dri exists on the host it should just work. If running a Raspberry Pi 4 be sure to enable
dtoverlay=vc4-fkms-v3d in your usercfg.txt.To help you get started creating a container from this image you can either use docker-compose or the docker cli.
---
version: "2.1"
services:
webtop:
image: lscr.io/linuxserver/webtop:latest
container_name: webtop
security_opt:
- seccomp:unconfined #optional
environment:
- PUID=1000
- PGID=1000
- TZ=Europe/London
- SUBFOLDER=/ #optional
- KEYBOARD=en-us-qwerty #optional
- TITLE=Webtop #optional
volumes:
- /path/to/data:/config
- /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock #optional
ports:
- 3000:3000
devices:
- /dev/dri:/dev/dri #optional
shm_size: "1gb" #optional
restart: unless-stopped
docker run -d \
--name=webtop \
--security-opt seccomp=unconfined `#optional` \
-e PUID=1000 \
-e PGID=1000 \
-e TZ=Europe/London \
-e SUBFOLDER=/ `#optional` \
-e KEYBOARD=en-us-qwerty `#optional` \
-e TITLE=Webtop `#optional` \
-p 3000:3000 \
-v /path/to/data:/config \
-v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock `#optional` \
--device /dev/dri:/dev/dri `#optional` \
--shm-size="1gb" `#optional` \
--restart unless-stopped \
lscr.io/linuxserver/webtop:latest
Docker images are configured using parameters passed at runtime (such as those above). These parameters are separated by a colon and indicate
<external>:<internal> respectively. For example, -p 8080:80 would expose port 80 from inside the container to be accessible from the host's IP on port 8080 outside the container.Parameter | Function |
|---|---|
3000 | Web Desktop GUI |
Env | Function |
|---|---|
PUID=1000 | for UserID - see below for explanation |
PGID=1000 | for GroupID - see below for explanation |
TZ=Europe/London | Specify a timezone to use EG Europe/London |
SUBFOLDER=/ | Specify a subfolder to use with reverse proxies, IE /subfolder/ |
KEYBOARD=en-us-qwerty | See the keyboard layouts section for more information and options. |
TITLE=Webtop | String which will be used as page/tab title in the web browser. |
Volume | Function |
|---|---|
/config | abc users home directory |
/var/run/docker.sock | Docker Socket on the system, if you want to use Docker in the container |
Parameter | Function |
|---|---|
/dev/dri | Add this for GL support (Linux hosts only) |
Miscellaneous Options
Parameter | Function |
|---|---|
--shm-size= | We set this to 1 gig to prevent modern web browsers from crashing |
--security-opt seccomp=unconfined | For Docker Engine only, many modern gui apps need this to function on older hosts as syscalls are unknown to Docker. |
You can set any environment variable from a file by using a special prepend
FILE__.As an example:
-e FILE__PASSWORD=/run/secrets/mysecretpassword
Will set the environment variable
PASSWORD based on the contents of the /run/secrets/mysecretpassword file.For all of our images we provide the ability to override the default umask settings for services started within the containers using the optional
-e UMASK=022 setting. Keep in mind umask is not chmod it subtracts from permissions based on it's value it does not add. Please read up here before asking for support.When using volumes (
-v flags), permissions issues can arise between the host OS and the container, we avoid this issue by allowing you to specify the user PUID and group PGID.Ensure any volume directories on the host are owned by the same user you specify and any permissions issues will vanish like magic.
In this instance
PUID=1000 and PGID=1000, to find yours use id user as below: $ id username
uid=1000(dockeruser) gid=1000(dockergroup) groups=1000(dockergroup)
We publish various Docker Mods to enable additional functionality within the containers. The list of Mods available for this image (if any) as well as universal mods that can be applied to any one of our images can be accessed via the dynamic badges above.
- Shell access whilst the container is running:
docker exec -it webtop /bin/bash
- To monitor the logs of the container in realtime:
docker logs -f webtop
- Container version number
docker inspect -f '{{ index .Config.Labels "build_version" }}' webtop
- Image version number
docker inspect -f '{{ index .Config.Labels "build_version" }}' lscr.io/linuxserver/webtop:latest
- 21.10.22: - Rebase xfce to Alpine 3.16, migrate to s6v3.
- 12.03.22: - Add documentation for mounting in a GPU.
- 05.02.22: - Rebase KDE Ubuntu to Jammy, add new documentation for updated gclient, stop recommending priv mode.
- 21.09.21: - Add Fedora and Arch images, show seccomp settings in readme.
- 26.09.21: - Rebase to Alpine versions to 3.14.
- 20.04.21: - Initial release.
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