Run XFCE (or other desktop environments) on a JupyterHub.
This is based on https://github.com/ryanlovett/nbnovnc and a fork of https://github.com/manics/jupyter-omeroanalysis-desktop
If a vncserver executable is found in PATH it will be used, otherwise a bundled TightVNC server is run.
You can use this to install vncserver with support for other features, for example the Dockerfile in this repository installs TurboVNC for improved OpenGL support.
To spin up such a notebook first build the container:
$ docker build -t $(whoami)/$(basename ${PWD}) .Now you can ran the image:
$ docker run --rm -p 8888:8888 $(whoami)/$(basename ${PWD})
Executing the command: jupyter notebook
[I 12:43:59.148 NotebookApp] Writing notebook server cookie secret to /home/jovyan/.local/share/jupyter/runtime/notebook_cookie_secret
[I 12:44:00.221 NotebookApp] JupyterLab extension loaded from /opt/conda/lib/python3.7/site-packages/jupyterlab
[I 12:44:00.221 NotebookApp] JupyterLab application directory is /opt/conda/share/jupyter/lab
[I 12:44:00.224 NotebookApp] Serving notebooks from local directory: /home/jovyan
[I 12:44:00.225 NotebookApp] The Jupyter Notebook is running at:
[I 12:44:00.225 NotebookApp] http://924904e0a646:8888/?token=40475e553b7671b9e93533b97afe584fa2030448505a7d83
[I 12:44:00.225 NotebookApp] or http://127.0.0.1:8888/?token=40475e553b7671b9e93533b97afe584fa2030448505a7d83
[I 12:44:00.225 NotebookApp] Use Control-C to stop this server and shut down all kernels (twice to skip confirmation).
[C 12:44:00.229 NotebookApp]
To access the notebook, open this file in a browser:
file:///home/jovyan/.local/share/jupyter/runtime/nbserver-8-open.html
Or copy and paste one of these URLs:
http://924904e0a646:8888/?token=40475e553b7671b9e93533b97afe584fa2030448505a7d83
or http://127.0.0.1:8888/?token=40475e553b7671b9e93533b97afe584fa2030448505a7d83
*snip*Now head to the URL shown and you will be greated with a XFCE desktop.