nbnovnc provides Jupyter server and notebook extensions to proxy a notebook-side VNC session using noVNC, enabling users to run non-web applications within their Jupyter notebook server. This is mostly useful for hosted Jupyter environments such as JupyterHub or Binder.

The extension requires nbserverproxy and currently uses an opinionated VNC environment comprised of Xvfb, x11vnc, noVNC, and websockify.

On Debian/Ubuntu:

apt install xvfb x11vnc novnc websockify

Install the library:

pip install git+https://github.com/ryanlovett/nbnovnc

Either install the extensions for the user:

jupyter serverextension enable  --py nbnovnc
jupyter nbextension     install --py nbnovnc
jupyter nbextension     enable  --py nbnovnc

Or install the extensions for all users on the system:

jupyter serverextension enable  --py --sys-prefix nbnovnc
jupyter nbextension     install --py --sys-prefix nbnovnc
jupyter nbextension     enable  --py --sys-prefix nbnovnc