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HexChat

HexChat is an IRC client based on XChat, but unlike XChat it’s completely freefor both Windows and Unix-like systems. Since XChat is open source, it’sperfectly legal. For more info. HexChat was originally called XChat-WDK which inturn was a successor of freakschat.

Latest stable HexChat release from Arch Linux.

docker run -d \    -p 5900:5900 \    -p 6080:6080 \    --name=<container name> \    --privileged=true \    -v<pathfor config files>:/config \    -v /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro \    -e HTTPS_CERT_PATH=<path to cert file> \    -e HTTPS_KEY_PATH=<path to key file> \    -e WEBPAGE_TITLE=<name shownin browser tab> \    -e VNC_PASSWORD=<passwordfor web ui> \    -e ENABLE_STARTUP_SCRIPTS=<yes|no> \    -e UMASK=<umaskfor created files> \    -e PUID=<uidfor user> \    -e PGID=<gidfor user> \    binhex/arch-hexchat

Please replace all user variables in the above command defined by <> with thecorrect values.

docker run -d \    -p 5900:5900 \    -p 6080:6080 \    --name=hexchat \    --privileged=true \    -v /apps/docker/hexchat:/config \    -v /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro \    -e WEBPAGE_TITLE=Tower \    -e VNC_PASSWORD=mypassword \    -e ENABLE_STARTUP_SCRIPTS=yes \    -e UMASK=000 \    -e PUID=0 \    -e PGID=0 \    binhex/arch-hexchat

If you do specify a password for the web ui via the env var 'VNC_PASSWORD' thenit MUST be 6 characters or longer, otherwise it will be ignored.

http://<host ip>:<host port>/vnc.html?resize=remote&host=<host ip>&port=<host port>&&autoconnect=1

e.g.:-

http://192.168.1.10:6080/vnc.html?resize=remote&host=192.168.1.10&port=6080&&autoconnect=1

<host ip>::<host port>

e.g.:-

192.168.1.10::5900

ENABLE_STARTUP_SCRIPTS when set toyes will allow a user to installadditional packages from the official Arch Repository or the Arch UserRepository (AUR) via scripts located in the folder/config/home/scripts/. Asample script is located at/config/home/scripts/example-startup-script.shwith comments to guide the user on script creation.

User ID (PUID) and Group ID (PGID) can be found by issuing the following commandfor the user you want to run the container as:-

id<username>

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