I use podman for things like this, works perfect until you want desktop applications but you can hack it about a bit to work fine with pipewire and Xephyr and you have. I feel like a lot of these desktop container systems are horrible and are quite hostile to configuring in the way you want around permissions and such and podman or docker does a better job.

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Timon3 29 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

I've had very good experiences with desktop applications in containers using Distrobox & podman. It handles all the integration into the host system, so video, audio etc. just work.

The default configuration is probably too well-integrated if you're looking to use it as a sandbox, but there should be ways to turn parts off.

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jbstack 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> Xephyr

Given that X11 is becoming more and more obsolete over time, what's the Wayland option?

	▲	kodoman 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Not using Wayland I am not 100% sure, I think Xephyr works in XWayland and I think their is a similar tool to Xephyr for setting up an embedded Wayland session (I would have thought this is even easier and more elegant in wayland but not sure). So could be even better. I personally use X11 as I am on exwm and exwm does not support wayland and no alternative to it does AFAIK (I think theirs a POC floating around somewhere). Also I know X11 even though it's a bit crap in many ways it's the devil I know.