How to work with remote GUI-based app

[mengineerchen]

Hey code-server community! I am working on a customized code server project where we wanna seamlessly integrate some app into the browser IDE.
To be more precise, we have one qt designed app on the host machine. It spawns a GUI for user in local usage, kinda classic. But, we want to have it in user's remote browser.
Would you have some good practice / advice, how we can deploy it into the browser IDE provided by code-server?

[jsjoeio]

Hmm...good question! Maybe @bpmct knows? Would VNC work for this?

[im-coder-lg]

I don't think so, since Coder uses system images, ie. Ubuntu/Arch Linux images with extra features loaded up, it could be futile loading them onto code-server. But installing noVNC could work. The question is, how do we install it?

[jsjoeio]

cc @bpmct

[bpmct]

You'll need to create a custom image that either

1. uses the code-server base image (FROM: codercom/code-server:latest), then install VNC in the image OR
2. create a custom image with VNC and code-server

[AyaanZaveri]

How would we install VNC?

[mengineerchen]

You'll need to create a custom image that either

1. uses the code-server base image (FROM: codercom/code-server:latest), then install VNC in the image OR

2. create a custom image with VNC and code-server

Great! I will give it a try in my project.