X11 bindings for MacOS

[balewski]

Feature request description

I'd like to be able to use X11 graphics on MacOS while running Ubuntu inside Podman.

This is a demonstrator showing the problem.

I start image as:
podman run -it --user $(id -u):$(id -g) balewski/ubu22-xeyes:p1

core@dffd00a8735c:/$ xeyes
Error: Can't open display:

core@dffd00a8735c:/$ xterm
xterm: Xt error: Can't open display:
xterm: DISPLAY is not set

The display is not working.

Thanks
Jan

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Additional context

My OS is: Ventura ver 13.6.1
My Podman is podman version 4.7.0
The Dockerfile for the image is:
https://bitbucket.org/balewski/jannersc/src/master/dockerVaria/ubuntu/Dockerfile.ubu22-xeyes

@lastephey

[edsantiago]

X needs a lot of context to work. You need to pass $DISPLAY to the container, also the X socket and auth:

$ podman run -v /tmp/.X11-unix:/tmp/.X11-unix:z -v $HOME/.Xauthority:/root/.Xauthority:z -e DISPLAY balewski/.....

You almost certainly do not want --user, that just confuses things and requires a lot more setup.

You may need --privileged for the socket, I'm not sure.

And, this is the extent of my help, because I know nothing about Macs. I didn't even know they had X11.