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Box-UI:

A Graphical User Interface for Distrobox

What is BoxUI?

BoxUI is a gui frontend to easily interface with Distrobox which makes it more convenient to work with multiple containers. you can check out the Distrobox official GitHub repo here:

https://github.com/89luca89/distrobox

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Install instructions:

Clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/BiscuitBobby/BoxUI-A_GUI_interface_for_Distrobox.git

Navigate to the build folder:

cd dist

Run the executable file:

chmod +x main

./main

Note that Box-UI requires the following dependencies:

  • Distrobox

  • Gnome-terminal or Konsole

  • Podman or Docker

  • zlib

Other dependencies will generally be packaged with the application.

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basic features:

Box-UI provides the following basic features:

  • Creating new distribution containers

  • Starting and stopping distro containers

  • Deleting existing containers

General Info:

  • Easily resizable without usability issues

  • Tested on i3, Sway, Gnome and KDE plasme

  • This app has only been tested extensively with Konsole and Fedora

-Note that Box-UI is not affiliated with Distrobox in any way

Known issues:

  • It may hang while downloading container data when creating a new distro container for the first time.

  • Creation of an OpenSuse-leap container does not work so the user will have to refer to the distrobox documentation to create it manually

  • While initializing a new container, it may sometimes look stuck, but closing and reopening the application fixes the issue.

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