meshlab runs from container

.devcontainer/Dockerfile

@@ -2,11 +2,13 @@ FROM ubuntu:20.04
 
 RUN apt-get -y update && DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get -y install \
     build-essential \
+    dbus-x11 \
     fontconfig \
     fuse \
     git \
     kmod \
     libboost-dev \
+    libcanberra-gtk3-0 \
     libdbus-1-3 \
     libegl-dev \
     libfuse2 \
@@ -25,6 +27,7 @@ RUN apt-get -y update && DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get -y install \
     libxkbcommon-x11-dev \
     ninja-build \
     patchelf \
+    packagekit-gtk3-module \
     python3 \
     python3-pip
 
@@ -52,4 +55,7 @@ RUN apt purge --auto-remove cmake && \
     apt-get -y remove wget && \
     apt-get -y autoremove && \
     apt-get -y clean && \
-    rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
+    rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
+
+# Generating a universally unique ID for the Container
+RUN  dbus-uuidgen > /etc/machine-id

.devcontainer/README.md

@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+# Running Meshlab in a Docker container
+
+After built meshlab in the container, you can run it, but you'll need to give it access to the X server. You can do this by running the following command in the host machine:
+
+```bash
+xhost +local:*
+```
+
+You can disable access to the X server later by running the following command in the host machine:
+
+```bash
+xhost -local:*
+```

.devcontainer/devcontainer.json

@@ -11,7 +11,10 @@
                 "ms-vscode.cpptools",
                 "ms-vscode.cpptools-extension-pack",
                 "ms-vscode.cmake-tools"
-            ]
+            ],
+            "settings": {
+                "cmake.buildDirectory": "${workspaceFolder}/build"
+            }
         }
     }
 }

.devcontainer/docker-compose.yml

@@ -6,8 +6,12 @@ services:
       dockerfile: Dockerfile
     stdin_open: true # docker run -i
     tty: true        # docker run -t
+    # flag -e DISPLAY=$DISPLAY
+    environment:
+      DISPLAY: $DISPLAY
     volumes:
       - ..:/workspaces/meshlab
+      - /tmp/.X11-unix:/tmp/.X11-unix
       # Next flags are necessary to deploy meshlab and create the AppImage
       # fuse is needed. If you don't plan to create the AppImage, you can remove the 
       # following lines