NAME

       cockpit-desktop - Cockpit Desktop integration

SYNOPSIS

       cockpit-desktop {URLPATH}

DESCRIPTION

       The cockpit-desktop program provides secure access to Cockpit pages in an already running desktop
       session. It starts a web server (cockpit-ws) and a web browser in an isolated network namespace, and a
       cockpit-bridge(8) in the running user session.

       This avoids having to log into Cockpit, and having to enable cockpit.socket system-wide. The network
       isolation ensures that no other user, and not even other processes in the user's session, can access this
       local web server.

       URLPATH is the Cockpit page to open, i. e. the path component of Cockpit URLs. It is highly recommended
       to only open a particular page frame[1], not the entire Cockpit navigation and menu. For example, the
       path /cockpit/@localhost/storage/index.html will open the Storage page. It is also possible to give
       abbreviated forms of urls, such as "storage" or "network/firewall".

ENVIRONMENT

       The BROWSER environment variable specifies the browser command (and possibly options) that will be used
       to open the requested Cockpit page. If not set, cockpit-desktop attempts to use an internal minimalistic
       WebKit browser, and failing that, will attempt to detect some reasonable alternatives.

BUGS

       Please send bug reports to either the distribution bug tracker or the upstream bug tracker[2].

AUTHOR

       Cockpit has been written by many contributors[3].

SEE ALSO

       cockpit-ws(8), cockpit-bridge(1)

NOTES

        1. particular page frame
           https://cockpit-project.org/guide/latest/embedding.html

        2. upstream bug tracker
           https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit/issues/new

        3. contributors
           https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit/