Closed sandrokeil closed 6 years ago
Your setup failed because x11docker checks for successfull startup using the container name and believes that the startup failed.
One possibility is to use option --showid
that gives the container ID on stdout. This ID is equivalent to the container name:
read ID < <(x11docker --showid image)
An option --name
for a custom container name is reasonable. One issue: Option --cleanup
checks for containers that did not terminate successfully and removes them. The check relies on x11docker_X
as part of container name.
Would --showid
be ok, or would you prefer a meaningful name instead of an anonymous number? Be aware that a custom --name
will fail if a container with same name is already in docker ps -a
, e.g. due to a failed stop. The ID will always be unique and won't fail.
The Docker container id will work too. The problem is, that the container ID will change on every startup so I have to update my debug config every time.
I can live with the drawbacks of using a custom container name. It's only a special use case but I think it can be useful for others too.
Time for a new PR? ;-)
Time for a new PR? ;-)
yeah :-)
To reduce the issue with --cleanup
you could create a file container.name
that is checked in cleanup()
additonally to current check of x11docker_X
in docker ps -a
.
It would be great if I can set the name of the Docker container. If I try
x11docker -- --name=cathode jess/cathode
it fails withError response from daemon: no such image: x11docker_X100_3c3ea8_jess-cathode: invalid reference format: repository name must be lowercase
. I'm not sure if it is because of the duplicate--name
argument in the docker run command.Adding an optional x11docker argument
--name
would be useful to set an own Docker container name to identify this container in a network via the name. I need this for debugging. I have an IDE Docker Container and a Docker Compose network. I join the IDE Docker Container to the Docker Compose network but I have to set the debug host IP/Name (the IDE Docker Container in this case) manually.What do you think or are there any problems with setting a custom container name?