@brendan@social.brendans-bits.com
Post #1893696
2026-04-14 01:09 UTC
RE: https://social.brendans-bits.com/@brendan/116390900101739683
And success!
To run #zotero 9.0 (or any X11 app) on #freebsd:
On the host:
Ubuntu Jammy chrootmounting /tmp, /home, AND /home/<user> (because my home directory is a separate ZFS dataset)make xhost permissive (i.e. xhost +)In the chroot:
creating a user with the same uid as my FreeBSD userincrease file descriptor limits for the userexport DISPLAY=:0.0 (as the user)simply run zotero
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@brendan@social.brendans-bits.com 2026-04-14 01:16
To do: permanently set DISPLAY for the usercheck whether making xhost more permissive is necessary (since the chroot user has access to .Xauthority) Things that caught me out: forgetting to mount both /home AND /home/ since they are separate datasets Things that made it easier: there is an unofficial apt repository with the latest version of Zotero available; this pulled in the required dependencies #zotero #freebsd