Error: cannot link container's themes to host home. about distrobox HOT 5 CLOSED

Wow, just wow! It does indeed works now, I entered the Fedora 35 container, installed Nautilus and launched it: I am on KDE Neon and it works perfectly. I love how you carefully designed the UX for novices. With few intuitive commands now I able to run GTK apps without messing up my system. I can't wait to try this with the nightly images that KDE Neon provides. This should definetely be advertised also in KDE land, since now the best way to develop for KDE is using Neon's script that is a very simple version of yours but just for running Neon's images.

Cool glad it fixed it! 😄

About the themes/icons thing, it would be nice to have it as an option in future.

Yep I've opened an issue #15 to adress this in the future

Also I can definetely see the GTK/GNOME/Fedora folks take the opportunity to build a GUI tool on top of yours, to make it even easier to use.

Hehe yea I would really like to give it a shot myself with GTK4 but that's something definitely for the future 😄

As the issue is solved, I'll close the bug report
thanks again for reporting!

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Hey @alxlg thanks for the report!

Yes the idea is to link the hosts's themes (from /run/host) to the container so to try and have a bit of consistency for the graphical apps
It is linking the ones in /run/host/usr because the ones in home are already accessible (so in case you have custom themes you're covered both if you install from repos and manually in home)

Seeing that seems a permission problem, is the themes folder in your home belonging to another user or has some restrictions?

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But that is not the reason it is failing to create the container

seems like there is a problem in the usermod section, it failed to create the alex user and the usermod failed afterwards

what image are you using?

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I've pushed version 1.0.3, it should fix this issue putting a groupadd --force before the useradd can you check if it fixes your issue?

Also I've for now removed the themes/icon integration as it's not a solid solution and for now I prefer to be more reliable than featurefull 😅

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Wow, just wow! It does indeed works now, I entered the Fedora 35 container, installed Nautilus and launched it: I am on KDE Neon and it works perfectly. I love how you carefully designed the UX for novices. With few intuitive commands now I able to run GTK apps without messing up my system. I can't wait to try this with the nightly images that KDE Neon provides. This should definetely be advertised also in KDE land, since now the best way to develop for KDE is using Neon's script that is a very simple version of yours but just for running Neon's images.

About the themes/icons thing, it would be nice to have it as an option in future.

Also I can definetely see the GTK/GNOME/Fedora folks take the opportunity to build a GUI tool on top of yours, to make it even easier to use.

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