wsl

[Michael]

wslg.exe startx just returns through. How does one use it?

On Tue, May 21, 2024 at 2:33 PM Patrick Callahan via PLUG-discuss <
plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:

> 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 at 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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