space

Utility scripts for workspace container management.

Note

You may want the more lightweight solution space-bwrap .

Usage

1. Clone this repo.
2. Set environment variable $SPACE refers to where the container in the repo is.
3. Execute spacen fedora:39

Host-side scripts

• spacen: Create container and mount host directories to the container.
  $ spacen (image)
• space: Login as user $1 in container.
  $ space (user) [command]
• startup: Piece of script that used to prepare the container before starting it, add it to your Display Manager.
  $ startup
• shutdown: Piece of script that kill the running container.
  $ shutdown
• porter: Expose a port by SSH from container, listen on host. You have to prepare the ssh keypair for user porter first.
  $ porter 2222
• wlx: Start an Xwayland server with 666 mode X11 socket and authority disabled on Wayland display. No container needed.
  $ wlx (X display number)

Container-side

• spacerc: Setup container environment by the information mounted from host.
• setup: Initialize container environment when /etc/setup does not exist.

Example

$ spacen fedora:39          # Create and setup the new container.
$ space                     # Login as root.
$ space root /bin/firefox   # Run FireFox as root.