First pull + script initialization issue about logicmoo_workspace

[jacobfriedman]

apt-get install screen

did the trick

[TeamSPoon]

Will keep this open until I if/then it..

Thank you for opening it and providing workaround

[jacobfriedman]

Did you manage to get the xeyes working on a VM?

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[TeamSPoon]

xeyes does for work for me on the VM

What we were using xeyes for was to test that the VM was allowed to communicate (due to security) on the host's X Windows display
Instead of xeyes you can try running xterm instead as that will perform the same sanity check.

The issue I believe is the is finding the right value for the DISPLAY environment variable on the VM
This will be the internal IP address the host uses .. such as 172.17.0.1
Example: (ran on the VM not the host)

export DISPLAY=172.17.0.1:0.0
xeyes &
xterm &

Next there are reasons a host wont allow the VM to connect due to the security of the host being too high
which can be worked around by allowing the VM into the hosts X-Server daemon.. https://www.lifewire.com/linux-command-xhost-4093456
(ran on the host not the VM) replacing 127.17.0.2 with the

xhost + 172.17.0.2

This would ensure the VM is allowed to connect to your X-Windows Desktop

Which then would allow these eyes to appear

Usually no need for the logicmoo VM to access the X-Server except in our case of testing we wanted to not have to deal with port conflicts (since logicmoo VM binds for instance port 80/443) inside the docker container ..
like:

export DISPLAY=....
google-chrome http://localhost &

Though the VM is running the webserver accessible at
google-chrome http://<your-p-address>:4280
(Which makes using xeyes/X-server test unneeded)