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KiCad

KiCad is an open source software suite for Electronic Design Automation (EDA). The programs handle Schematic Capture, and PCB Layout with Gerber output. The suite runs on Windows, Linux and OS X and is licensed under GNU GPL v3.

Usage

docker run --rm \
--volume /tmp/.X11-unix:/tmp/.X11-unix \
--volume ~/workspace:/home/workspace \
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Above, we made the container's processes interactive, forwarded our DISPLAY environment variable, mounted a volume for the X11 unix socket, and recorded the container's ID. This will fail at first and look something like this, but that's ok:

No protocol specified
Error: Unable to initialize GTK+, is DISPLAY set properly?

We can then adjust the permissions the X server host.

xhost +local:docker

Optional:

docker run --rm \
--volume /tmp/.X11-unix:/tmp/.X11-unix \
--env DISPLAY=unix:$DISPLAY \
--env LANG=$LANG \
--env RUNUSER_UID=$(id -u) \
--volume ~/workspace:~/workspace:/home/workspace \
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