WSL comes with a Wayland implementation called WSLg that provides a rootless display server: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/tutorials/gui-apps

That's probably the easiest way to run GUI apps. I would try that first.

Either way, you want a display server that runs outside the VM, on the Windows side.

If you don't like WSLg you can try an X11 server for Windows. IIRC I've had success with X410 and VcXsrv, but there's also Cygwin/X and Xming.

On Tue, May 21, 2024, 11:19 Michael via PLUG-discuss <plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:

well, I'm stuck in a world of windows now. but I gots to use linux so I'm doing wsl. How do I get gui to work: I ran apt update/upgrade/xinit but it responds with:

_XSERVTansmkdir: Mode....X11-unix should.... 1777

_XSERVTransCreateListener: failed...

_XSERVTransUNIX...:failed

_XSERVTransMakeALL... failed...

etc....

So could someone help me get x going until I can get a beloved linux box again?

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