This is a Dockerfile to run Zoom for Linux inside a Docker container.
Zoom became fairly well known in 2020, and not always for good reasons: it had a number of security issues that made me wary of running it on my laptop. But the grid view is used often at my workplace, and the web version doesn't support it, hence this docker file.
This image currently makes a few assumptions:
- That exporting
$DISPLAYand/tmp/.X11-unixis all that's needed for Zoom to display out of the container. - That the video devices are at
/dev/video*, and membership in groupvideois sufficient to access them. - That the audio devices are at
/dev/snd, and membership in groupaudiois sufficient to access them.
This container does not interface with the host's PulseAudio, if any! Pull requests to add PA support would also be welcome as long as they don't break non-PA usage.
After cloning the repo, execute
./build.sh
The included wrapper script zoom-docked should do the necessary work to execute Zoom. The image
itself may be used to install the wrapper script by invoking it as something like
docker run --rm -v /install/path:/target anomiex/zoom-docked install
If you want links clicked in Zoom—including those for SSO—to work, the xdg-open command from
xdg-utils must be installed on the host (and properly configured, if necessary). The container
will then exfiltrate clicked links to open them in the host browser.
You may also want to install xdg-dbus-proxy to allow Zoom to inhibit screensavers and powersave shutdowns during meetings.
The directory ~/.zoom-docked/ is mounted inside the container at the same location, and may be
used for any necessary transfer of files to and from Zoom. Zoom's logs and such are located in
~/.zoom-docked/.zoom.
If you don't like Zoom minimising itself to the taskbar when you close the window instead of
actually exiting, look for forceEnableTrayIcon in ~/.zoom-docked/zoomus.conf and change it to
false. And then if logged in look in the settings for a "When closed, quit the application
directly" option. This works with Zoom 5.2.454870.0831, at least.
If you need to pass extra arguments to Docker, set the environment variable
ZOOM_EXTRA_DOCKER_ARGS. You can also set ZOOM_COMMAND to execute something other than Zoom. For
example, you might poke around the container in a shell with
ZOOM_EXTRA_DOCKER_ARGS=-it ZOOM_COMMAND=bash zoom-docked
The following projects were used as references when creating this: