swayvnc-firefox

VNC Desktop Browser Session in a Container

swayvnc-firefox uses Sway with wayvnc to create a headless wayland desktop with a browser payload (firefox), to display one or several web pages

Build

Build dependency

Uses swayvnc as base image

Build container

$ podman build -t swayvnc-firefox .

Run Container

$ export LISTEN_ADDRESS="127.0.0.1" \
  podman run -e XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/tmp \
             -e WLR_BACKENDS=headless \
             -e WLR_LIBINPUT_NO_DEVICES=1 \
             -e SWAYSOCK=/tmp/sway-ipc.sock \
             -e MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 \
             -e TARGET="grafana" \
             -e URL="https://grafana.example.com" \
             -e LOGIN_USER="foo" \
             -e LOGIN_PW="c3VwZXJTZWNyZXRQYXNzd3JvZAo=" \
             -e BROWSER_FULLSCREEN=1 \
             -p${LISTEN_ADDRESS}:5000:5000 \
             -p${LISTEN_ADDRESS}:5100:5100 \
             -p${LISTEN_ADDRESS}:7023:7023 swayvnc-firefox
# or
$ ./run.sh

Run Commands

Run commands with swaymsg by using socat to put them on the network Replace $IP with the actual IP you want to listen on

$ socat UNIX-LISTEN:/tmp/sway-ipc.sock,fork TCP:$IP:7023
$ SWAYSOCK=/tmp/swayipc swaymsg exec "firefox [URL]"

Connect

Use a vnc client to connect to the server

$ wlvncc <vnc-server>
# or
$ vinagre [vnc-server:5910]

TODO

• Add tab rotation for the browser payload

Resources

W3C WebDriver Specification
Selenium/WebDriver Documentation
Mozilla geckodriver