My Personal Fedora Toolbox

Note

toolbx is not a typo, check https://containertoolbx.org/

Toolbx is a tool for Linux, which allows the use of interactive command line environments for software development and troubleshooting the host operating system, without having to install software on the host. These are my personal Fedora toolbox images, which I use for development and daily usage.

Get the Containerfile at GitHub, or pull the image from ghcr.io or quay.io.

base toolbox

This is the base toolbox image for all the other toolboxes.

toolbox create -i quay.io/jim60105/toolbx:latest fedora-toolbox-41
toolbox run sh -c 'cp /copy-to-host/* ~/.local/bin/'

• zsh
• Fonts
  • Noto Sans CJK
  • Noto Color Emoji
  • Cascadia Code
  • Hina Mincho
  • Iansui 芫荽
  • Hack Nerd Font
• Gnome Seahorse (for os keyring)
• Git Credential Manager
• .NET SDK 8.0
• Rust
  • rustup
  • cargo
• Java 17 (JetBrains loves this 😆)
• Node.js and npm
• aria2
• jq
• vim
• gh cli

Sourcegit toolbox

toolbox create -i quay.io/jim60105/toolbx-sourcegit:latest sourcegit
toolbox run -c sourcegit cp /usr/share/icons/sourcegit.png ~/.local/share/icons/
toolbox run -c sourcegit cp /usr/share/applications/sourcegit.desktop ~/.local/share/applications/
toolbox run -c sourcegit sh -c 'cp /copy-to-host/* ~/.local/bin/'

VSCode toolbox

toolbox create -i quay.io/jim60105/toolbx-vscode:latest vscode
toolbox run -c vscode cp /usr/share/icons/vscode.png ~/.local/share/icons/
toolbox run -c vscode cp /usr/share/icons/vscode-insiders.png ~/.local/share/icons/
toolbox run -c vscode cp /usr/share/applications/code.desktop ~/.local/share/applications/
toolbox run -c vscode cp /usr/share/applications/code-url-handler.desktop ~/.local/share/applications/
toolbox run -c vscode cp /usr/share/applications/code-insiders.desktop ~/.local/share/applications/
toolbox run -c vscode cp /usr/share/applications/code-insiders-url-handler.desktop ~/.local/share/applications/
toolbox run -c vscode sh -c 'cp /copy-to-host/* ~/.local/bin/'

Important

Following this guide to setup os keyring to use gnome-libsecret:
https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/editor/settings-sync#_recommended-configure-the-keyring-to-use-with-vs-code

RustRover toolbox

toolbox create -i quay.io/jim60105/toolbx-rustrover:latest rustrover
toolbox run -c rustrover cp /usr/share/icons/rustrover.svg ~/.local/share/icons/
toolbox run -c rustrover cp /usr/share/applications/jetbrains-rustrover.desktop ~/.local/share/applications/
toolbox run -c rustrover sh -c 'cp /copy-to-host/* ~/.local/bin/'

Rider toolbox

toolbox create -i quay.io/jim60105/toolbx-rider:latest rider
toolbox run -c rider cp /usr/share/icons/rider.svg ~/.local/share/icons/
toolbox run -c rider cp /usr/share/applications/jetbrains-rider.desktop ~/.local/share/applications/
toolbox run -c rider sh -c 'cp /copy-to-host/* ~/.local/bin/'

DataGrip toolbox

toolbox create -i quay.io/jim60105/toolbx-datagrip:latest datagrip
toolbox run -c datagrip cp /usr/share/icons/datagrip.svg ~/.local/share/icons/
toolbox run -c datagrip cp /usr/share/applications/jetbrains-datagrip.desktop ~/.local/share/applications/
toolbox run -c datagrip sh -c 'cp /copy-to-host/* ~/.local/bin/'

video toolbox

This toolbox is for video processing and mpv player.

toolbox create -i quay.io/jim60105/toolbx-video:latest video
toolbox run -c video cp /usr/share/icons/mpv.svg ~/.local/share/icons/
toolbox run -c video cp /usr/share/icons/obs.svg ~/.local/share/icons/
toolbox run -c video cp /usr/share/applications/mpv.desktop ~/.local/share/applications/
toolbox run -c video cp /usr/share/applications/obs.desktop ~/.local/share/applications/
toolbox run -c video sh -c 'cp /copy-to-host/* ~/.local/bin/'

• OBS Studio
• ImageMagick
• ExifTool
• yt-dlp
• ffmpeg
• mpv
  • vapoursynth + mvtools + motion interpolation (to 60fps)
  • uosc (Nice UI for mpv) + thumbfast
  • Anime4K

Note

Trigger mpv motion interpolation by pressing b key.

Open youtube video in mpv

Execute this script on the youtube video page:

(function() {
  function getYouTubeVideoId(url) {
    const regex = /(?:https?:\/\/)?(?:www\.)?youtu(?:\.be\/|be\.com\/(?:v\/|embed\/|watch\?v=|watch\?.+?&v=|live\/))((\w|-){11})(?:\S+)?/;
    const match = url.match(regex);
    
    return match ? match[1] : null;
  }

  function openInMPV(videoId) {
    window.open(`ytdl://${videoId}`, '_blank');
  }

  function stopVideo() {
    var video = document.querySelector('video');
    if (video) video.pause();
  }

  const url = window.location.href;
  const videoId = getYouTubeVideoId(url);

  if (!videoId) {
    console.log("Invalid YouTube URL");
    return;
  } 

  console.log(`The video ID is: ${videoId}`);

  openInMPV(videoId);

  stopVideo();
})();

Tip

I'm using Enhancer for YouTube™ to run this script on the youtube page.
It provides a button so I don't have to implement it myself.

Kubernetes toolbox

This toolbox is for kubernetes related tools.

toolbox create -i quay.io/jim60105/toolbx-kubernetes:latest kubernetes
toolbox run -c kubernetes cp /usr/share/icons/lens.png ~/.local/share/icons/
toolbox run -c kubernetes cp /usr/share/applications/open-lens.desktop ~/.local/share/applications/
toolbox run -c kubernetes sh -c 'cp /copy-to-host/* ~/.local/bin/'

• OpenLens
• kubectl
• helm
• talosctl

Toolbox cheat sheet

• Recreate all the toolboxes

  podman pull quay.io/jim60105/toolbx:latest \
              quay.io/jim60105/toolbx-vscode:latest \
              quay.io/jim60105/toolbx-rustrover:latest \
              quay.io/jim60105/toolbx-rider:latest \
              quay.io/jim60105/toolbx-datagrip:latest \
              quay.io/jim60105/toolbx-sourcegit:latest \
              quay.io/jim60105/toolbx-video:latest \
              quay.io/jim60105/toolbx-kubernetes:latest && \
  toolbox rm -af && \
  toolbox create -i quay.io/jim60105/toolbx:latest fedora-toolbox-41 && \
  toolbox create -i quay.io/jim60105/toolbx-vscode:latest vscode && \
  toolbox create -i quay.io/jim60105/toolbx-rustrover:latest rustrover && \
  toolbox create -i quay.io/jim60105/toolbx-rider:latest rider && \
  toolbox create -i quay.io/jim60105/toolbx-datagrip:latest datagrip && \
  toolbox create -i quay.io/jim60105/toolbx-sourcegit:latest sourcegit && \
  toolbox create -i quay.io/jim60105/toolbx-video:latest video && \
  toolbox create -i quay.io/jim60105/toolbx-kubernetes:latest kubernetes

• Recreate video toolbox

  podman pull quay.io/jim60105/toolbx-video:latest && \
  toolbox rm -f video && \
  toolbox create -i quay.io/jim60105/toolbx-video:latest video

Note

The toolbox create command will always use the existing image.
Remember to manually run podman pull before recreating the toolbox!

Troubleshooting

Random freezes in VSCode/JetBrains IDE

Set /etc/hosts to include toolbx in localhost. ref

# Loopback entries; do not change.
# For historical reasons, localhost precedes localhost.localdomain:
127.0.0.1   toolbx localhost localhost.localdomain localhost4 localhost4.localdomain4
::1         toolbx localhost localhost.localdomain localhost6 localhost6.localdomain6

LICENSE

GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 3

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see https://www.gnu.org/licenses/.

Caution

A GPLv3 licensed Containerfile means that you MUST distribute the source code with the same license, if you

• Re-distribute the image. (You can simply point to this GitHub repository if you doesn't made any code changes.)
• Distribute an image that uses code from this repository.
• Or distribute an image based on this image. (FROM ghcr.io/jim60105/toolbx in your Containerfile)

"Distribute" means to make the image available for other people to download, usually by pushing it to a public registry. If you are solely using it for your personal purposes, this has no impact on you.

Please consult the LICENSE for more details.