How does --container-mode work with clickable desktop?

[grgraf]

Hi all,

I'm new to Clickable and trying to understand how it interacts with containers.

According to https://clickable-ut.dev/en/latest/commands.html, the --container-mode is useful for running Clickable from within a container.

Here's what I tried:

• clickable ci — opens a root bash shell inside a container.
• Inside that container shell, I run: clickable desktop --container-mode

I expected this to launch my app (a simple Hello World) directly within the current container. Instead, I get the following error:

Container was not initialized with Container Mode.

This is confusing because clickable desktop help lists --container-mode as a supported argument.
My question: what is the intended use of --container-mode with clickable desktop, if it doesn't actually run the app in the current container?

Thanks in advance for any clarification!

[arubislander]

@grgraf I think container-mode is and option for clickable in general. But it doesn't make much sense to run clickable desktop inside a container created by clickable itself. i.e. that was not an envisioned use case.

Container mode is primarily used for building your click inside a ci container on GitHub / GitLab / whatever CI infrastructure you use, if it leverages containers.

[kugiigi]

If I remember correctly, one use case for container mode is to use clickable in Ubuntu Touch. I don't think clickable desktop ever worked there. You just launch the app on your device. I haven't explored clickable much but maybe it'll work if you use Qt Creator which I believe runs inside the container.

[grgraf]

@kugiigi that's actually where I came from. I tried to start QT Creator with clickable ide (which starts QT Creator in a container) and then run the app by clicking Run or Debug button in QT Creator. But I didn't manage to configure Run settings for the project to make this work.