Webex in Distrobox

Run Cisco Webex inside a Distrobox container based on Ubuntu 22.04, with environment variables forcing X11/XWayland (the native Wayland support of Webex is currently buggy).

Usage

1. Download the webex.ini

You can either:

• Click on the file in this repository and use the Download button,
• Or directly grab it via wget:

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/silverhadch/webex-distrobox/refs/heads/master/webex.ini

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2. Install Distrobox

Make sure you have Distrobox installed on your system.
Most distros provide it in their package repositories.

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3. Create the container

Run:

distrobox assemble create --file webex.ini

This will:

• Pull the ubuntu:22.04 image,
• Update the container,
• Download and install Webex,
• Apply environment flags to force X11/XWayland instead of native Wayland,
• Export the application so you can simply launch Webex from your desktop’s application menu.

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Showcase

Here is Webex running on EndeavourOS, an Arch-based distribution which is not officially supported by Webex.

Thanks to Distrobox, the container runs the userspace of Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (an officially supported distro) natively on the host Linux kernel with access to host devices.

✅ Tested on EndeavourOS:

• Joining and hosting meetings
• Messaging
• Calling with the integrated softphone

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License

BSD 3-Clause