Say you’re in WebStorm or PyCharm and you’re editing a HTML source file, there’s an overlay top-right that has icons for Chrome or Firefox, or a built in viewer from JetBrains. If you click it. the browser normally shows for that page.
In Aurora though, I’m trying DevContainers, but where is the IDE’s UI running cos it can’t find the chrome exe to launch it against localhost:nnnnn which is port forwarded by the DevContainer Jetbrains linkeage. I don’t think the Jetbrains stuff is in Flatpak on the host, but I’m not sure. If it were it could explain the not finding the chrome executable in the path. There’s no snaps on Aurora by default, so it’s not via that. The JetBrains Toolbox install is via ujust, so it’s official rather than something I’ve forced in somehow breaking immutability.
Years back I wrote The Principles of Containment and it could do with some modernization to talk way more of the new world we are in, but my brain blanks unless I can visualise the the container → contained situation for the entire machine.
Edit: on Ubuntu on metal , I can make the same DevContainer from a Toolkit initiated WebStorm, and the linkage to open Ubuntu’s chrome executable works as you’d expect