Top 20 Shell X11 Projects

• Docker-OSX

  132 35,695 5.8 Shell

  Run macOS VM in a Docker! Run near native OSX-KVM in Docker! X11 Forwarding! CI/CD for OS X Security Research! Docker mac Containers.

Project mention: GitHub Actions as a time-sharing supercomputer | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-01-10

Running macOS legally requires real mac servers and a bespoke storage solution: https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/analysis/not-just-stac...

A self-hosted macOS runner will be more economical in the long-run, if you have a spot you can hook it up at, or if you're fine doing things less than legally, you can use https://github.com/sickcodes/Docker-OSX.

• x11docker

  26 5,422 4.9 Shell

  Run GUI applications and desktops in docker and podman containers. Focus on security.

Project mention: Remote Controlling an HP 1670G Logic Analyzer with a Linux PC X Server | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-12-27

I don't know anything about Xwayland, but according there's this sentence in this socat writeup:

> If you want to access an X server that does not provide -listen tcp (Xwayland) or just did not have enabled it during startup (like most likely your host Xorg), you can use socat to provide TCP/IP access.

https://github.com/mviereck/x11docker/wiki/How-to-access-X-o...

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• hotfiles

  8 1,355 0.0 Shell

  🏠 A collection of personal configuration files for various rices I have made.

Project mention: Arch + Bspwm ricingggg! | /r/bspwm | 2023-06-22

https://github.com/gh0stzk/dotfiles https://github.com/Syndrizzle/hotfiles https://github.com/janleigh/dotfiles https://github.com/siduck/dotfiles https://github.com/rxyhn/tokyo

• XQuartz

  36 766 6.7 Shell

  An X11 server and client libraries for macOS

  

Project mention: Show HN: Dillo 3.1.0 released after 9 years | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-05-04

I couldn't get dillo to compile easily on macos, it doesn't seem to detect ssl libraries installed on the system)

you can do this to compile it on macos (tested on M1):

install https://www.xquartz.org/ to have X11

brew install fltk libjpeg #you might also need openssl@3 but unsure

git clone https://github.com/crossbowerbt/dillo-plus/; cd dillo-plus

# update the 1.3.8_1 fltk version

• farge

  1 477 3.9 Shell

  Click on a pixel on your screen and show its color value

• i3ass

  2 409 7.1 Shell

  A collection of shell scripts to ease the use of i3wm

  

• gow

  7 336 7.2 Shell

  Games on Whales - stream games (and GUI) running in Docker (by games-on-whales)

  

Project mention: I forked SteamOS for my living room PC | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-12-31

I spent some (too much) time trying to get pretty much the same thing running using GOW [1]. Was quite a bit harder than I thought, requiring a hdmi dummy plug to get the xserver config right etc.

1: https://github.com/games-on-whales/gow

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• hideIt.sh

  4 247 0.0 Shell

  Automagically hide/show a window by its name when the cursor is within a defined region or you mouse over it.

• x11-fractional-display-scaling

  2 67 0.0 Shell

  Script and instructions to get fractional display scaling working nicely on Linux distros that use X11

• nowm

  5 53 2.0 Shell

  🚫 Managing window without a window manager. (59 slocs)

• remote-docker

  3 50 5.5 Shell

  This project uses Docker to create an environment where you can run containers on a remote host, in such a way that your local working directory is visible to the container and optionally use X11 to use a GUI.

• magic-mirror-raspbian-lite

  1 41 4.0 Shell

  Magic Mirror for Raspbian Lite (works with Raspberry Pi Zero)

  

• fwm

  1 28 1.4 Shell

  wmutils based shell scripts for window management

• cwmrc

  1 11 7.0 Shell

  Configuration of the Calm Window Manager (CWM)

• gentoo_unattented-setup

  5 8 6.3 Shell

  Automated modular GENTOO linux setup

• dot

  1 8 7.5 Shell

  my d●tfiles (by doums)

• screenrotate

  1 7 10.0 Shell

  A small script used to automatically change the various Laptops screen rotation (by Quoteme)

• openbsd-station

  2 4 6.0 Shell

  (ⓧ,_,ⓧ)

• i3dracula

  4 3 7.0 Shell

  i3 🦇

• dotfiles

  1 0 7.8 Shell

  dotfiles to manage an X11 window manager with configs for some common packages. (by majamin)

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Shell X11 related posts

• Show HN: Dillo 3.1.0 released after 9 years

  11 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 4 May 2024

• Remote Controlling an HP 1670G Logic Analyzer with a Linux PC X Server

  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Dec 2023

• Docker-OSX · Follow @sickcodes on Twitter

  1 project | /r/programming | 9 Dec 2023

• Understanding Keyboard Events Better

  2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 4 Dec 2023

• É caro programar do jeito “honesto”

  1 project | /r/brdev | 11 Nov 2023

• Caso você não queira comprar um Mac mas ainda queira o sistema, agora dá pra rodar MacOS dentro do Docker

  1 project | /r/brdev | 9 Nov 2023

• Can i run a Hackintosh VM on my homelab and stream it to my pc ?

  1 project | /r/hackintosh | 4 Nov 2023
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