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Running a full desktop in a container

While building your next Internet-of-things (IoT) project, sometimes you get to a point where you need to run applications that are made to run on a screen, we call them graphical user interface (GUI) applications. After multiple requests from our users, we decided to write a short tutorial explaining how you can run a desktop manager or a GUI application with balenaCloud or openBalena on any kind…

March 12, 2019 / 7 min

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Running a GUI application with balenaCloud

Have you ever got to a point while working on a project where you absolutely had to run a graphical user interface (GUI) application when you only have access to a headless device? This is an issue that one of our engineers Chris faced a while back while working on the Festive Lighting project, where the software to control the lights only had a GUI version. One solution to this problem lies in…

February 18, 2019 / 5 min

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