So I’m looking at trying am Immutable Linux Desktop (uBlue Aurora probably). One thing I’m not clear on is how to run GUI apps during development. From what I understand I should create a container with distrobox, install my toolchains in it and start developing. I’m used to containers for CLI and server work, but I’m not sure how it applies to the GUI (Wayland / KDE).
If I do a cargo run inside distrobox for a Rust GUI project will it just work?
I saw that I can ‘export’ apps, but that is for already built executables whereas I will be building and rebuilding them.
I’ve used Bluefin and Aurora for some light web development. I created a container with toolbox (I assume things would be similar with distrobox) and did what I needed. When I needed, I could run
npm startand it was as if I had developed locally.Are you accessing that through the browser? It might just be bridging the networking in that case.
You should be able to run any executable you like in your home directory. No need for any containers. Try it out with a Hello World app.
The executable that I would be running is
cargo(the rust build tool) but I want that inside of a container. I couldcargo buildinside the container and then execute the output binary on the host but then I lose things like hot-reload.
Distrobox supports GUI Apps (XServer and Wayland)
Dioxus desktop and fullstack worked out of the box. Bevy isn’t working because some Nvidia libraries aren’t in the container. I might need to switch to a different ‘GPU enabled’ image.
