xwidget enabled Emacs for WSLg.

This docker image can launch emacs with GUI and xwidget.

• WSL2
• Ubuntu 22.04
• some packages in host ubuntu (not tested)
  • libgtk-3-0
  • libgif7
  • libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37

launch emacs container with mounts and environments for WSLg.

This sample additionally mounts home directory into /root.

• reuse container

run with sleep infinity

docker run \ --rm \ --name emacs \ -d \ -v ~:/root \ -v /tmp/.X11-unix:/tmp/.X11-unix \ -v /mnt/wslg:/mnt/wslg \ -e DISPLAY \ -e WAYLAND_DISPLAY \ -e XDG_RUNTIME_DIR \ -e PULSE_SERVER \ peccu/wslg-emacs:latest

and exec emacs in it.

docker exec -it emacs emacs &

• launch container each time

docker run \ --rm \ --name emacs \ -it \ --entrypoint emacs \ -v ~:/root \ -v /tmp/.X11-unix:/tmp/.X11-unix \ -v /mnt/wslg:/mnt/wslg \ -e DISPLAY \ -e WAYLAND_DISPLAY \ -e XDG_RUNTIME_DIR \ -e PULSE_SERVER \ peccu/wslg-emacs:latest

Based version is Emacs 29 (emacs-29 branch from emacs mirror git repo).

• emacs server and emacsclient
  • change CMD or ENTRYPOINT into emacs server
• more emacs versions
• script sample
• test host dependencies