there's a reason native apps died on linux and everything is electron, but that's someone else's boo
there's a reason native apps died on linux and everything is electron, but that's someone else's book to write, hah.
Rif only we could have a standardized system webview on desktop like on android instead of 100 different versions of electron 
Ja technical marvel
Hi really enjoy the Qt framework and their documentation but sadly the bindings for the languages i use 
Halso all my GUIs suck
Ji love making GUIs but hot damn React is so much easier
NI was just talking about this earlier and how frustrating it is that we basically have a split between GTK and QT.
Nand web has basically just taken over since it is the most popular platform in the world.
Jreally i just want to feel like i have to have a PhD to get started on things. we need easier barriers to entry and good support which is not cheap. i was having an easier time writing menu items in gcc with c than i was making a button hide in yafti with python
Jbut hey give it like two more years and we'll all be read bedtime stories by sam altman in our headphones and none of this will matter
Fanyone knwo why I cant force it to use zsh?
Fthis is with a custom boxkit image
FGitHub
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Fwith a boxkit image, anyone know how to copy files into the user's HOME dir?
MYou can't... You can use a custom home for distrobox container and place desired files into /etc/skel
For the actual command, distrobox enter overrides that and has an entry point. You can provide an environment variable of SHELL=/usr/bin/zsh for it to set the users shell to zsh
For the actual command, distrobox enter overrides that and has an entry point. You can provide an environment variable of SHELL=/usr/bin/zsh for it to set the users shell to zsh
Jyeah, the model is predicated on the system, touching the user space is tricky, some would call a purposeful barrier for blast radius reasons.
Jwhich is why usually if you wanna mess with it it's on boot and then a thing runs vs. doing it at the build step
FI just made a post-init step
Jnod
FAwesome thanks
Jone off service units are useful too, see the bazzite and bluefin repos for examples
FWait wdym
Jlet me find one
MIf your boxkit has init.... You can run systemd one shot services to run configurations for you. You can also use systemd-tmpfiles as well
Joh you mean inside the boxkit
Jsorry I swapped to OS mode
JI'd be interested in knowing the use case, what's the end goal?
FOhhh smart
FI'm just tryna make a good dev env
FThat I can create multiple of
FAlso that I can ssh into
Jcan you describe it a bit?
Jyou shouldn't need to ssh to anything
FI'll commit
FWdym
Jthe container is running on your machine, you just enter it, it's not like a VM
FYeah, but if I'm using vscode from another machine and want to ssh into it, it's really awkward and doesn't work well unless I directly ssh into the box
Jok so if you're looking to do remote stuff use the remote extension in vscode to connect to a devcontainer, boxkit is like "I want my own distrobox"
Jtwo different use cases
FThe remote extension can connect to a container running on a different PC!?!?!
Fyeah, I wanted to customize it to have oh-my-zsh with my config setup properly
Jyeah you can have all your PCs at home doing no work but connecting to a centralized setup doing all the actual work
F
FWhich one?
Jthis is where my expertise falls off a cliff, I wish we had someone to write all this down, there are people here doing it for sure.
FConnect via SSH to Docker engine running on a remote machine and use the remote machine as a development environment for Visual Studio Code.
FI'll be damned
Jiirc this is how bketelsen does it
Jalso as a bonus if you tailscale all of it you can go anywhere with your laptop and it's all "local" as far as your UX goes.
FOh I'm using Tailscale
FI love Tailscale so much it's unreal
