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Minimal Alpine Linux desktop VM (Xfce4) for quicksand

Project description

Quicksand Alpine Desktop

Minimal Alpine Linux 3.23 desktop VM (Xfce4) for the quicksand agent harness. Lightweight and fast-booting — ideal when you need GUI automation without the overhead of a full Ubuntu desktop.

Installation

pip install quick-sandbox
quicksand install alpine-desktop

Usage

import asyncio
from quicksand import Key
from quicksand_alpine_desktop import AlpineDesktopSandbox

async def main():
    async with AlpineDesktopSandbox() as sb:
        await sb.screenshot("desktop.png")
        await sb.type_text("echo hello world")
        await sb.press_key(Key.RET)
        result = await sb.execute("cat /etc/os-release")
        print(result.stdout)

asyncio.run(main())

What's Included

  • Alpine 3.23 with Xfce4 desktop + LightDM (auto-login)
  • Chromium browser
  • Python 3, bash, curl
  • The quicksand guest agent (pre-installed)

Default Config

Setting Default
Memory 1G
CPUs 2
Display Enabled (always)
Boot timeout 60s
Init system OpenRC
Image size ~300MB

License

MIT

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