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Dockerfile

@@ -1,42 +1,40 @@
 # Run Chrome in a container
-FROM debian:jessie
+FROM ubuntu:xenial
 MAINTAINER Andrey Arapov <andrey.arapov@nixaid.com>
 
 # To avoid problems with Dialog and curses wizards
 ENV DEBIAN_FRONTEND noninteractive
 
-ENV USER chrome
-ENV GROUPS video,audio
-ENV UID 1000
-ENV HOME /home/$USER
-
 ADD https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-talkplugin_current_amd64.deb /tmp/google-talkplugin_current_amd64.deb
 ADD https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb /tmp/google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb
 
 RUN sh -c 'dpkg -i /tmp/google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb \
-    /tmp/google-talkplugin_current_amd64.deb 2>/dev/null; exit 0' \
+           /tmp/google-talkplugin_current_amd64.deb 2>/dev/null; exit 0' && \
-    && apt-get update \
+    apt-get update && \
-    && apt-get -fy install \
+    apt-get -fy install && \
-    && apt-get install -y libcanberra-gtk-module libexif12 pulseaudio \
+    apt-get install -y libcanberra-gtk-module libexif12 pulseaudio && \
-    && rm -rf -- /var/lib/apt/lists /tmp/*.deb
+    rm -rf -- /var/lib/apt/lists /tmp/*.deb
 
-RUN useradd -u $UID -m -d $HOME -s /usr/sbin/nologin $USER \
+# Workaround: pulseaudio client library likes to remove /dev/shm/pulse-shm-*
-    && usermod -aG $GROUPS $USER \
+#             files created by the host, causing sound to stop working.
-    && su -s /bin/sh -l $USER -c 'mkdir -p $HOME/.pki/nssdb $HOME/.local'
+#             To fix this, we either want to disable the shm or mount /dev/shm
+#             in read-only mode when starting the container.
+RUN echo "enable-shm = no" >> /etc/pulse/client.conf
 
-# if you don't want pulseaudio, uncomment the following lines
+ENV USER user
-# COPY asoundrc /etc/asound.conf
+ENV GROUPS video,audio
-# RUN chgrp audio /etc/asound.conf && chmod 0640 /etc/asound.conf
+ENV UID 1000
+ENV HOME /home/$USER
 
-# for some unknown reason the ownCloud's (v9.0.0) calendar (v1.0.0.0) doesn't
+RUN useradd -u $UID -m -d $HOME -s /usr/sbin/nologin -G $GROUPS $USER && \
-# show up the calendars when the time is set to UTC/Zulu
+    su -s /bin/sh -l $USER -c 'mkdir -p $HOME/.pki/nssdb $HOME/.local'
-RUN echo "CET" > /etc/timezone \
-    && dpkg-reconfigure tzdata
 
 USER $USER
+WORKDIR $HOME
 VOLUME [ "$HOME/.pki/nssdb", \
          "$HOME/.local", \
-         "/tmp" ]
+         "/tmp", \
+         "/data" ]
 ENTRYPOINT [ "/usr/bin/google-chrome" ]
 CMD [ "--user-data-dir=/data" ]
 #      "--no-sandbox" ]

README.md

@@ -1,28 +1,34 @@
-Readme
+# Google Chrome in Docker
-======
+
+First initialize the data volume
+
+```
+docker run --rm -ti -v chrome_data:/data busybox /bin/sh -c "chown 1000:1000 /data"
+```
+
+Launch the Chrome
 
-Launching the Google Chrome
 ```
 docker-compose up -d
 ```
 
-Extra
+## Extra Notes
-=====
 
 Good & stable vsync
+
 ```
 chrome://flags/
 Enable "Override software rendering list"
 ```
-Note that /dev/shm should be mounted from host to the docker container.
 
+Verify
 
-Check
 ```
 chrome://gpu/
 ```
 
 To see whether you have the best result, you should have stable 60 FPS at following tests
+
 ```
 http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/Performance/FishIETank/Default.html
 http://www.vsynctester.com/
@@ -32,11 +38,13 @@ http://www.vsynctester.com/
 You may want to disable Google's VP8 & VP9 video codecs: "MSE & WebM VP9" and "WebM VP8"
 as there is no hardware decoding for them.
 To do this, install h264ify extension from
+
 ```
 https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/h264ify/aleakchihdccplidncghkekgioiakgal?hl=en-US
 ```
 
 Check the codecs
+
 ```
 https://www.youtube.com/html5
 ```

asoundrc

@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
-# To find your card
-# aplay -l
-# speaker-test -D plughw:CARD=PCH -l 1 -t sine
-
-# defaults.pcm.!card PCH
-# defaults.pcm.!device 0
-# defaults.pcm.!ctl PCH
-
-# defaults.pcm.card 1
-# defaults.ctl.card 1
-
-defaults.pcm.card plughw:PCH
-defaults.ctl.card plughw:PCH

docker-compose.yml

@@ -1,27 +1,36 @@
 version: '2'
 
+# Initialize
+# docker run --rm -ti -v chrome_data:/data busybox /bin/sh -c "chown 1000:1000 /data"
+
+volumes:
+  data: {}
+
 services:
   chrome:
-    build: ./
+    image: andrey01/chrome
     read_only: true
-    networks:
+    network_mode: bridge
-      - isolated
     devices:
       - /dev/dri
+      # - /dev/video0
     volumes:
+      - /tmp/.X11-unix:/tmp/.X11-unix:ro
+      - $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/pulse:/run/user/1000/pulse
       - /dev/shm:/dev/shm
-      - /tmp/.X11-unix:/tmp/.X11-unix
+      - data:/data
-      - /tmp/krb5cc_1000:/tmp/krb5cc_1000:ro
+      - $HOME/Downloads:/home/user/Downloads
       - /var/run/cups:/var/run/cups:ro
-      - $HOME/.config/google-chrome/:/data
+      - /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket:/var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket:ro
-      - $HOME/Downloads:/home/chrome/Downloads
+      # - /tmp/krb5cc_1000:/tmp/krb5cc_1000:ro
     environment:
-      DISPLAY: unix$DISPLAY
+      - DISPLAY=unix$DISPLAY
-      PULSE_SERVER: tcp:pulseaudio:4713
+      - PULSE_SERVER=unix:$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/pulse/native
-    cap_add:
+      # for some unknown reason the ownCloud's (v9.0.0) calendar (v1.0.0.0) does work correctly,
-      - SYS_ADMIN
+      - TZ=Europe/Amsterdam
-
+      # unless the timezone is set
-networks:
+    # security_opt:
-  isolated:
+      # - apparmor:docker-ptrace
-    external:
+      # - apparmor:unconfined
-      name: isolated
+    # cap_add:
+      # - SYS_ADMIN