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).
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.iniMake sure you have Distrobox installed on your system.
Most distros provide it in their package repositories.
Run:
distrobox assemble create --file webex.iniThis will:
- Pull the
ubuntu:24.04image, - Update the container,
- Download and install Webex,
- Apply environment flags to force X11/XWayland instead of native Wayland,
- Export the application so you can launch Webex from your desktop's application menu.
Screen sharing is broken under Wayland. To work around this, install xwaylandvideobridge v0.5.0, which includes Webex support. When prompted to share your screen, select the video bridge as the source and it will handle the rest automatically.
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 24.04 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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