Desktop-full image, how to access on Windows?

[PaddyCube]

Hi there,

I run osrf/ros:humble-desktop-full in my windows machine. I want to use it to visualize data from my real robot.

Silly question, how should I run the image so that I can access RVIZ2 and other GUI tools from windows?

If I simlpy use
docker run -it osrf/ros:humble-desktop-full
it works but with console only.

I tried this as well
docker run -it --name ros-test -e DISPLAY=host.docker.internal:0.0 -e LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT=0 osrf/ros:humble-desktop-full bash

which seems to start a X11 server (to my understanding). When I try to connect by VNC, it asks for a password, which I can't find.

So what's the correct docker command to run any desktop-full image on windows with GUI support?

BR Patrick

[sloretz]

I don't have a windows machine to try this on, but assuming you're using WSL then maybe x11docker would work there?

# Pull the image first
docker pull osrf/ros:humble-desktop

# Run rviz2 in the image with GPU acceleration
x11docker --gpu osrf/ros:humble-desktop rviz2